[4] He was a core member of the group from 2010 to 2017, concluding with his publication of "The Blind Man and the Elephant",[5] calling for the wide adoption of fair queuing and active queue management techniques across the Internet, particularly RFC8290.

He worked at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)[7] and was the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification in the Internet Engineering Task Force through draft standard.

One of his main goals at OLPC was to review and overhaul much of standard Linux software, in order to make it run faster and consume less memory and power.

This, he claims, is often false on current hardware, given fast CPUs and the long time it takes to recover from a potential cache miss.

Gettys is one of the keepers of the Flame (USENIX's 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award) on behalf of The X Window System Community at Large.