Adam joined the Solaris
kernel development team after graduating
cum laude from
Brown University in 2001 with his
B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science. DTrace was made available to the public in November 2003, and has since been used to find opportunities for performance improvements in production environments. In 2006, Adam and his DTrace colleagues were chosen Gold winners in
The Wall Street Journals Technology Innovation Awards contest by a panel of judges representing industry as well as research and academic institutions. A year after
Sun Microsystems was acquired by
Oracle Corp, Leventhal announced he was leaving the company. He served as
Chief Technology Officer at Delphix from 2010 to 2016. == References ==