Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling
Born
Jeff Geerling
EducationSt. Louis University
Kenrick–Glennon Seminary
YouTube information
Channels
Years active2019–present
GenreEngineering
Subscribers
  • 1.05 million (JeffGeerling)
  • 152 thousand (Level 2 Jeff)
  • 131 thousand (Geerling Engineering)
Views
  • 195 million (JeffGeerling)
  • 15.6 million (Level 2 Jeff) 12 million
  • (Geerling Engineering)
Last updated: March 12, 2026
Websitewww.jeffgeerling.com
github.com/geerlingguy

Jeff Geerling is an American author, open-source software developer, and hardware reviewer best known for his YouTube channel.

Career

Geerling has worked as a develop a website,[1] beginning his career building a website that displayed song titles and artists for radio station KYKY for his father.[2][3] He is also an author of books on Ansible and Kubernetes.[4][5][6]

YouTube

Geerling became a full-time content creator in 2021 for his self titled Jeff Geerling YouTube channel, focusing on single-board computers, software programming, and electronics[7] and supported by sponsorships and Patreon members.[8] In particular, he has become recognized for his various projects using Raspberry Pi computers[2] with very large storage arrays,[9] high-performance compute,[10] clusters,[11][12][13] and external GPUs.[14][15]

Geerling and his father, Joe, later started a second YouTube channel Geerling Engineering to discuss radio engineering.[3][16]

In 2024, Geerling received attention after noticing his voice was cloned without consent by the electronics manufacturer Elecrow,[7][17][18] and the company subsequently apologized and removed the offending content.[19] Geerling's experience was cited as a case meant to be addressed by YouTube's likeness-detection technology when it was released in 2025.[20][21]

Personal life

Geerling's father is a radio engineer.[22] He intended to become a priest,[23] attending at St. Louis University and Kenrick–Glennon Seminary,[24] before leaving the seminary to get married.[23] As of 2024, he is married and has children.[7]

Geerling was diagnosed with Crohn's disease[25] and had ileostomy surgery in 2018 to treat it.[26] He subsequently wrote a book about life with the disease.[27]

References

  1. ^ Corey Quinn (October 10, 2023). "Storytelling Over Feature Dumping with Jeff Geerling" (Podcast). Last Week in AWS. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  2. ^ a b Gregory, Andrew (November 10, 2023). "Meet Jeff Geerling". Raspberry Pi. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  3. ^ a b Langan, Nick (March 5, 2023). "Exploring a 1 Million Watt Broadcast Tower". Radio World. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  4. ^ Geerling, Jeff (2020). Ansible for DevOps: server and configuration management for humans (2nd ed.). Victoria, British Columbia: Leanpub. ISBN 978-0986393426.
  5. ^ Geerling, Jeff. "Kubernetes 101". leanpub. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  6. ^ Geerling, Jeff. "Ansible for Kubernetes". leanpub. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  7. ^ a b c Constantino, Tor (September 25, 2024). "YouTuber's Voice Got AI Cloned Without Consent To Promote Videos". Forbes. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  8. ^ Pounder, Les (May 18, 2023). "Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton Discusses Stock Updates, Industry Prioritization". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  9. ^ Upton, Liz (June 7, 2022). "Jeff Geerling's Petabyte Pi". Raspberry Pi. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  10. ^ Kennedy, Patrick (November 23, 2022). "Raspberry Pi Cluster Versus Ampere Altra Max Supermicro Arm Server". Serve the Home. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  11. ^ Kennedy, Patrick (December 1, 2021). "Building the Ultimate x86 and Arm Cluster-in-a-Box". Serve the Home. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  12. ^ "The Pi Cast: Raspberry Pi Clusters and Fast SSDs with Jeff Geerling". YouTube. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  13. ^ Purdy, Kevin (January 20, 2025). ""Project Mini Rack" wants to make your non-closet-sized rack server a reality". Ars Technica. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  14. ^ Bild, Nick (December 1, 2025). "The Raspberry Pi Gets NVIDIA Horsepower". Hackster. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  15. ^ Tyson, Mark (October 9, 2024). "Jeff Geerling finally unlocks Raspberry Pi external GPU support, and yes it runs Doom... 3 at 4K!". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  16. ^ RW Staff (November 23, 2023). "Geerlings Drop a Video About KMOX Tower Site". Radio World. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  17. ^ Growcoot, Matt (September 26, 2024). "YouTuber Has His Voice AI-Cloned and Used by a Company Without Consent". Peta Pixel. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  18. ^ "They stole my voice with AI (UPDATE: Elecrow responded)". YouTube. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  19. ^ "The dark side of AI voice cloning". YouTube. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  20. ^ Forristal, Lauren (October 21, 2025). "YouTube's likeness-detection technology has officially launched". Tech Crunch. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  21. ^ Desreumaux, Geoff (October 21, 2025). "YouTube Officially Rolls Out Likeness-Detection Technology to Creators". We are Social Media. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  22. ^ Langan, Nick (February 11, 2026). "On the Ice, There's a Third Team at Work". Radio World. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  23. ^ a b Geerling, Jeff. "An Engaging Story..." www.jeffgeerling.com/. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  24. ^ Geerling, Jeff. "About". jeffgeerling.com. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  25. ^ "I have Crohn's Disease". YouTube. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  26. ^ "I Got Surgery to Fix my Dumb Intestines". YouTube. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  27. ^ "You Only Have Crohn's Once!". leanpub. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.