I am a computer engineer who works at Microsoft in the Macintosh Business Unit. I lead the TAO (Tools/Auto/Ops) team which consists of developers who write tools that help our testers to better test the products we are shipping and lab techs who keep everything up and running.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.