Summary
Abylay Ospan is an embedded software engineer and Linux kernel maintainer with 26 years of experience, currently contributing to AWS EC2 kernel and platform tooling from Miami Beach. He blends deep kernel expertise (device drivers, EFI/UEFI, dm-verity/dmcrypt, TPM/Measured Boot) with practical cloud and CI/CD experience across Amazon Linux, Bottlerocket and containerized environments. A serial founder and technical lead, he has launched startups and open-source projects spanning gStreamer VAAPI pipelines, speech NN containers, and IPTV/STB firmware, demonstrating both product and low-level systems chops. His kernel contributions include drivers and CI support for NetUP hardware, reflecting hands-on hardware-interaction and stability work that lives in upstream trees. Comfortable across C/C++, Python, and system tooling, he pairs security-focused engineering with performance and debugging expertise cultivated over decades.
26 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator Startup School
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian