Dominic Giampaolo

Dominic P. Giampaolo is a software developer who helped develop the Be File System for the Be Operating System (BeOS) and currently works at Apple Inc.

After graduating from Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine in 1987, he started studying political science at American University in Washington, D.C., but changed to computer science after one semester. After completing his bachelor's degree, he did a master's degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

In October 1995, Giampaolo heard about the BeBox from a friend at a poker game. Shortly after visiting the Be Inc. offices to see a demo of the computer, he began working on the BeOS, working initially in a number of areas including the kernel and the POSIX layer which had itself replaced the original flat file system written by Meurillon. While at QNX, he discovered a bug in the Instruction Fetch Unit of Intel Pentium II and Pentium III processors.

From March 2002 until May 2026, Giampaolo worked for Apple Inc., where he was part of the macOS file system (Apple File System project) and Spotlight groups.