Jeff Autor

Background

About Jeff Autor

Jeff Autor is a Principal Software Architect at Vertiv Co, working in the Manageability products group designing and developing both internal and external (industry) software and API standards. He was formerly a Distinguished Technologist in the Hewlett Packard Labs division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Jeff is the founder of the DMTF Redfish systems management standards effort, and has been co-Chairman of the DMTF Redfish Forum since its inception in 2014. Over his 34-year career at HPE he has designed and developed systems management technology for HP server products. Jeff co-authored the first SNMP server management MIBs, and has been involved in the architecture of numerous HP BladeSystem, HPE ProLiant and HPE iLO management technologies. He has architected and developed manageability interfaces both internal and external to the server ecosystem including support for SNMP, IPMI and JSON-based RESTful protocols. Jeff earned a BS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds 20 US patents in the areas of computer system management, hardware abstraction and failover clustering.