***UPDATE*** Steve now works for CA, Inc., the friendly people behind Unicenter and other wonderful IT management products. His official title is “Distinguished Engineer”, basically a very senior (as in “citizen”) technical contributor. While the below original text and photo are still historically accurate, Steve really needs to take the time to rewrite the whole thing and maybe even get a more recent photo while he’s at it.
Steve Oberlin, the proprietor of this blog, is currently employed as the Chief Scientist at Cassatt Corporation, purveyors of fine enterprise infrastructure software. If you go to cassatt.com and look up exec bios (that’s “biographies”, not BIOS), you’ll read:
“Steven Oberlin brings more than 25 years of technology experience to his position at Cassatt, and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities in supercomputing. He joined Cassatt from Unlimited Scale, where he was co-founder, president and CEO. Oberlin was the chief architect of the CRAY T3D and T3E systems, massively parallel processing systems that are widely recognized as the most efficient highly-scalable production computers ever built. He holds several communications, synchronization, and design patents for his work at Cray. He was Cray’s Director of the MPP Project as well as vice president of Hardware. After SGI acquired Cray, Oberlin served as vice president of Software for SGI and general manager of the Cray Research Business Unit. Oberlin began his technology career with Cray Research in 1980, bringing up the original Cray-1 supercomputer systems, and as a designer for Seymour Cray on his Cray-2 and Cray 3 projects.”
I wrote that (all except the first sentence; I’m not quite that egomaniacal). It’s all true, and I think the third-person voice makes it sound even more authoritative, don’t you? There’s also a handsome photo, 
originally shot by a professional photographer that used a 24 megapixel digital back on a Hasselblad body. This was in early 2004, so pretty amazing at the time. I asked him for the raw file (over 80 MB) of the full-resolution shot and had fun showing people how you could zoom in “close enough to see my genetic defects”. My wife, Gwen, panned around and immediately found several cat hairs on my jacket. Ironically, the official photo has seldom been used much larger than seen on the web site (78 x 93 pixels).
Outside of work, I am something of a geek, a private pilot, own/fly a classic airplane, windsurf, bike, do computer graphics and video, live/love with Gwen (30 years of matrimony, as of 2007; that’s 10950+ days and counting), cats, dog, and misc. critters that alway seem to be dropping into our life. My to-do list has been longer than my remaining expected life span for the past 20 years and it’s still growing.