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My name is Neil Kassal. I'm a Storage Area Network and UNIX Administrator, a gadget junkie, and a GNU/Linux advocate. I am a graduate of Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering (1999.) I'm also a cancer survivor.

I enjoy travel, rock climbing, hiking, running, bicycling (road and mountain), radio controlled model airplanes, snowboarding and motorcycling (both sport-touring and cruising/touring.)

I live in Phoenix, Arizona in the Cactus/Sweetwater region in the north central part of the city, between Lookout and Shadow Mountain.

I am currently employed by PayPal as a Senior Storage Engineer.

My resumes are here.  My GnuPG public keys can be found here.  My pictures are here. My KernelTrap blog is here. My MySpace page is here. My LinkedIn page is here. My Facebook page is here.

New Happenings

2010/01/22 - Flew to Denver and drove up to Steamboat Springs to join the 2010 "Bruzzapaluzza" Sierra Snowboard event group. Pics are here.

2010/01/15 - Hit Vail, Beaver Creek, and Copper Mountain with Vince and Dennis. Pics are here.

2010/01/09 - Ran in the 2010 Run, Walk, and Roll 10K in Tempe, AZ. Got 60 minutes, 41 seconds. Results are here. Local mirror is here.

2009/12/31 - Road tripped to Cedar City, Utah, for two days of snowboarding at Brian Head Resort. Awesome Utah snow, plenty of sunshine. Pics are here.

2009/12/19 - Vu, Dennis, and I road-tripped to Big Bear Lake, CA for some skiing and snowboarding at Snow Summit in the San Bernardino mountains. Pics are here.

2009/12/04 - Vince, Steve, Larry and I headed to Breckenridge and Copper in Colorado for some skiing and snowboarding. Pics are here.

2009/11/25 - Drove to Durango, Colorado so that I could snowboard at the Wolf Creek Ski Area near Pagosa Springs, Colorado for Thanksgiving and Friday the 27th. Pics are here and here.

2009/10/02 - Flew to Bryce Canyon Airport with Adam Rosenberg in his one hundred sixty horsepower Cherokee 140. Hiked Bryce Canyon National Park, Kodachrome State Park, and the Calf Creek Recreation Area. First day pics from my Canon are here, pics from the second day onward are here, and Adam's pics are here.

Archived Events


Drew Kassal Memorial Website (dedicated to one heck of a pilot, ATC, and father)

Doc's Last Flight (my father's services that were held on October 21st, 2006)