Founder & Senior Software Architect
Tom Mortensen
Tom Mortensen
Tom is the Creator and Lead Architect of Unraid OS.
I began my career in enterprise-storage at a start-up company called Maxstrat. Maxstrat was one of the first companies to offer disk array products and was ultimately purchased by Sun Microsystems in 1999.
I worked for Sun in their Network Storage Division as a system architect, and later for other start-up companies before founding Lime Technology.
With my passion for electronic media and background in storage, I knew there had to be a better way to store and stream media content throughout my home, so I invented Unraid in 2005 to protect and manage my media files.
Unraid was a new twist on an older technology that didn’t require all the devices in an array to be continually spun up, thereby reducing power consumption, and increasing the lives of the drives.
I’m very excited about what the future holds for Lime Technology as we continue to be on the forefront of digital media storage innovation.
On a more personal note, one of my favorite hobbies is brewing beer. We also happen to be located in perhaps the micro-brewery capital of the world right now in San Diego County.