Rocky is employed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a spinoff of HP where he started in 1978. He has served many roles in the technical space of technical workstations and HP-UX and Linux servers. Rocky is currently co-architect of a Debian-based distribution for The Machine, a new architecture featuring non-volatile memory. He is driving the NVM management for The Machine, extending prototype work started several years ago. Rocky has yet to speak at a public conference this century.