Trent Hein

Trent is the Co-CEO at Rule4. He is best known as co-author of the best-selling Unix System Administration Handbook and Linux Administration Handbook. With a more than 29-year history, the Unix System Administration Handbook has been translated into at least 16 languages and is recognized around the world as the “bible” of Unix system administration. Trent has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the USENIX Association for his work as a developer with the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), and he was the third engineer hired at Berkeley Software Design Inc. (BSDI). Most recently, Trent spent 16 years as co-founder and co-CEO of AppliedTrust.

A Boettcher Scholar, Trent holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, which in 2004 awarded him the Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Alumni Award. Trent also holds certifications as a CCIE, CISSP, ISSMP, ISSAP, CSSA, and GSNA.