Jeff Geerling
American YouTuber
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Jeff Geerling is an American author, open-source software developer, and hardware reviewer best known for his YouTube channel.
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| Born | Jeff Geerling |
| Education | St. Louis University Kenrick–Glennon Seminary |
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| Years active | 2019–present |
| Genre | Engineering |
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| Last updated: March 12, 2026 | |
| Website | www github |
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]