As CEO and founder of CIQ, Gregory leads a global team delivering enterprise support and innovation for Rocky Linux, HPC, and AI infrastructure. His work bridges academia, government, and industry, solving critical computational challenges and championing open source principles across the ecosystem.
With a background in biochemistry and a passion for Linux that began in the mid-1990s, Gregory has spent over 25 years enabling scientific discovery through scalable, open infrastructure.
Open Source Projects
Rocky Linux
Enterprise-grade Linux distribution continuing the CentOS legacy, providing a stable, community-driven platform for production environments worldwide.
CentOS
Co-founder of one of the most widely-used enterprise Linux distributions, powering millions of servers globally from 2003-2020.
Singularity / Apptainer
Revolutionary container runtime for HPC and scientific computing, now a Linux Foundation project enabling reproducible research at scale.
Warewulf
Scalable cluster management suite for high-performance Linux clusters, simplifying provisioning and system administration.
OpenELA
Open Enterprise Linux Association ensuring the longevity of Enterprise Linux through community collaboration with CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE.
Agentiq
AI-powered system administration platform that autonomously monitors, maintains, and troubleshoots infrastructure. Agentiq built this server configuration, created this webpage content, and continuously maintains the gmk.dev infrastructure with intelligent automation.
PERCEUS
Research initiative advancing HPC infrastructure and provisioning technologies.