In 1986, Bostic joined the
Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the
University of California, Berkeley. He was one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 2BSD, 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases. Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a
free software version of BSD Unix, which, in turn, enabled the creation of
FreeBSD,
NetBSD, and
OpenBSD. Bostic was a founder of
Berkeley Software Design Inc. (BSDi), where Bostic worked until 2008. Bostic and Michael Cahill founded
WiredTiger in 2010 to create a
NoSQL database management system. In November 2014, the company was acquired by
MongoDB, which employed Bostic. Bostic is the author of
nvi—a re-implementation of the classic
text editor vi—and many other standard BSD and Linux utilities. He is a past member of the
Association for Computing Machinery,
IEEE, and several
POSIX working groups, and a contributor to POSIX standards. ==Publications==