# Industry Legend and pfSense Co-Founder Chris Buechler Joins Alta Labs as Principal Architect **URL:** \ **Category:** Switches\ **Tags:** router\ **Created:** [January 22, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736 "2024-01-22T21:07:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alta-cmb](https://forum.alta.inc/user_avatar/forum.alta.inc/alta-cmb/32/5404_2.png) [@Alta-cmb](https://forum.alta.inc/u/Alta-cmb)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736/1 "2024-01-22T21:07:47Z")
[Press release here](https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect-b5fad2f3?mod=search_headline). Thanks to @Alta-Chase , @Alta-Jeff , and @Alta-Rob for making me look good there. šŸ˜€ A number of you have known me for years to decades, and I see a lot of familiar handles around here. For those who donā€™t know me, my previous identifiers in chronological order: - cmb@m0n0wall - 20+ years ago I was a significant m0n0wall contributor, where I met some of you for the first time. - cmb@pfsense - Co-founder and project leader 2004-2016, met a lot of you there. - UBNT/UI-cmb - Principal Engineer at Ubiquiti, 2016-2023. - Alta-cmb - now Principal Architect here at Alta Labs. Iā€™m thrilled to join the team here at Alta, and look forward to working with all of you! Chris ---
**Author:** ![anon77415413](https://forum.alta.inc/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@anon77415413](https://forum.alta.inc/u/anon77415413)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736/2 "2024-01-22T21:12:49Z")
Welcome to the team sir! I absolutely recognize the handle from UI-cmbā€¦ you and I chatted a number of times over on those forums. ---
**Author:** ![Alta-cmb](https://forum.alta.inc/user_avatar/forum.alta.inc/alta-cmb/32/5404_2.png) [@Alta-cmb](https://forum.alta.inc/u/Alta-cmb)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736/3 "2024-01-22T21:15:37Z")
Thanks for the welcome! Indeed, I remember you. ---
**Author:** ![anon77415413](https://forum.alta.inc/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@anon77415413](https://forum.alta.inc/u/anon77415413)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736/4 "2024-01-22T21:16:29Z")
I had some growing pains in my younger days on those forumsā€¦ sorry for any rants from back in the day :). Fresh start over here. ---
**Author:** ![Alta-Matt\_v2](https://forum.alta.inc/user_avatar/forum.alta.inc/alta-matt_v2/32/2456_2.png) [@Alta-Matt\_v2](https://forum.alta.inc/u/Alta-Matt_v2)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736/5 "2024-01-22T21:19:20Z")
Welcome to the team, Shaq! After all that time at ā€œthe U word companyā€, it was awesome to finally meet you in person last week! ---
**Author:** ![oakserver](https://forum.alta.inc/user_avatar/forum.alta.inc/oakserver/32/971_2.png) [@oakserver](https://forum.alta.inc/u/oakserver)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736/6 "2024-01-22T21:47:03Z")
@Alta-cmb Welcome to Alta Labs! Alta Labs seem to have a very strong team of people on board. Now with the addition of Alta-cmb Iā€™m intrigued to know what the future holds for an Alta Labs router šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![scatterday](https://forum.alta.inc/user_avatar/forum.alta.inc/scatterday/32/1449_2.png) [@scatterday](https://forum.alta.inc/u/scatterday)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736/7 "2024-01-22T22:00:30Z")
Oh, BOY! šŸ™‚ cmb from both @m0n0wall and @pfsense, never knew you were at Ubnt, but glad to see someone here who has been at this as long as I have! ---
**Author:** ![L3houx](https://forum.alta.inc/user_avatar/forum.alta.inc/l3houx/32/2667_2.png) [@L3houx](https://forum.alta.inc/u/L3houx)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736/8 "2024-01-23T16:37:02Z")
Congratulations! I canā€™t wait to what see future products (router, switches, AP, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![CompuWhizz](https://forum.alta.inc/user_avatar/forum.alta.inc/compuwhizz/32/189_2.png) [@CompuWhizz](https://forum.alta.inc/u/CompuWhizz)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736/9 "2024-01-24T17:15:48Z")
Looking forward to what hardware, firmware and software you will bring to the Alta platform! Welcome. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.alta.inc/uploads/default/original/1X/087669c3d7c0a6495087b41d6f385a6771f2231c.png) [@system](https://forum.alta.inc/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.alta.inc/t/industry-legend-and-pfsense-co-founder-chris-buechler-joins-alta-labs-as-principal-architect/1736/10 "2026-01-12T16:27:05Z")
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