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Last Updated: Feb 29, 2024
Work
Working at Oracle on the Linux Sustaining Engineering team. I get to work on resolving complex customer bugs (e.g. panics) and performance issues involving the Linux kernel. I typically handle core kernel bugs, especially those involving the VFS & printk. In addition, I get to work on great tools.
I’m very proud of the current projects I get to work on with Oracle:
- I regularly contribute new features to drgn, including an in-progress series of changes which enable kernel debugging without huge “debuginfo” packages.
- I author & maintain a CLI for managing OCI cloud instances. It’s used pretty heavily internally by my team, with well over 100 users.
Interests
Obviously, given my work, I’m really interested in debuggers, debugging tools, and the data formats we use to make everything go together. I’m also interested in most other kernel stuff, though it’s beyond impossible to keep up.
Outside of these, I’ve been interested in things that make my life nicer without depending on centralized systems - decentralized social media and self-hosted tools being two big examples.
And outside of tech, I’m a pretty major Trekkie & Swiftie.
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