Alexander Basov is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a long history of systems and embedded software R&D, currently focused on Linux kernel network stack improvements at Kwikbit Networks. He has deep expertise in cross-platform toolchains, low-level Linux kernel work, ARM/ARM64 and MIPS porting, and hardware emulation from his decade-plus at Samsung where he optimized boot time, ported suspend mechanisms, and built emulation and tracing tools in QEMU. An active open-source contributor since the mid-2000s, his projects span database UDFs, Ada language libraries, and XML tooling, reflecting a comfort with niche languages and interoperability. Based in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, he combines research-grade problem solving with practical production delivery, often tackling the intersection of toolchains, kernel internals, and performance engineering. Notably, he has hands-on experience building and benchmarking GCC-based cross-toolchains and adapting complex system components like Google-perftools to uncommon architectures.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at South Russian State Technical University (Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute)
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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