Albert Lee
Senior Software Engineer at illumos
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Lee is a Senior Software Engineer in Boston with 18 years of experience building reliable, security-first storage and systems software. He has deep low-level expertise in operating systems and filesystems, contributing significant fixes and features to illumos (including USB audio drivers and ZFS ACL/mode fixes) and to Plan 9 tools. At RackTop Systems he designs systems-level components for a hardened storage platform, and his prior roles include architecting cloud storage at SoftNAS and building container-aware OpenZFS isolation and eBPF-based syscall filtering at OmniTI. He straddles hands-on kernel and driver work with developer advocacy—helping others contribute to illumos—so he combines technical depth with community-facing mentorship. Notably, his background in biology-educated problem solving and long-term open-source involvement give him a methodical, systems-thinking approach to debugging and resilience.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
c1710
filesystem10
il10
c1110
system-programming10
zfs10
operating-system10
osdev9
unix9
macos9
awk9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
illumos/illumos-gate
Oct 2010 - Jun 2016
An open-source Unix operating system -- this is a read-only mirror of the official repository at https://code.illumos.org/plugins/gitiles/illumos-gate
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the Illumos operating system's USB audio and ZFS file system implementations. Their work involved enhancements to the USB audio drivers, including improvements to descriptor handling, sample rate settings, and packet size calculations within the USB audio subsystem. The user also addressed several bugs related to ACL handling, mode computation, and inheritance flags within the ZFS file system, contributing to improved stability and functionality of both USB audio and ZFS components. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on low-level system programming and file system management.
operating-systemunixillumosos
9fans/plan9port
Dec 2008 - Dec 2008
Plan 9 from User Space
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the `9fans/plan9port` repository by modifying and improving existing C code, especially related to the ISO9660 file system and its associated tools. Their work included defining functions for awk, giving names to anonymous structs, dynamically initializing function calls, and refactoring code to avoid naming conflicts with system macros, like the `SS` macro. The contributions focused on bug fixes, code improvements, and refactoring.
userspace
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