Dave Zarzycki is a Senior Engineer in the BSD Technology Group at Apple Computer. He is the designer and maintainer of launchd, a core operating system component, which was introduced with the 10.4 release of Apple's Mac OS X operating system.

In March 2000, after working as an intern at Apple for a number of years, Dave became a full time employee assigned to work on the Darwin operating system that Mac OS X is built on.<ref> </ref> Although other developers already worked on Darwin, Dave was the first developer to be hired solely to work on Darwin.<ref> </ref>

After the release of Mac OS X v10.4, Dave spoke at a number of conferences about the changes in 10.4, including USENIX 2005 and O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2005.

Dave is also the founder of a community network in the South Bay area of California.

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External links

The SBAY Wireless Network - presentation by Dave and Ian Kluft to the August 2000 West Valley Amateur Radio Association Meeting

What's New for UNIX Users? (PDF) - slides from Dave's talk at USENIX 2005

USENIX 2005: Unix in Southern California - review of Dave's talk at USENIX 2005

OSCON Session: Rethinking Daemon Management: Darwin's launchd - review of Dave's talk at OSCON