Alexander Eremin
Senior Software Engineer at illumos
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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SeniorAlexander Eremin is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 16 years specializing in Solaris/Illumos internals, kernel and systems-level development and production CI/CD for storage products. Based in Helsinki, he has driven kernel diagnostics, installer tooling and deployment automation for Nexenta/DDN and is now building Kubernetes/GCP infrastructure and IaC to streamline storage delivery at DDN. A long-time illumos contributor and creator of the MilaX minimal OpenSolaris distribution, his open-source work includes networking driver fixes, safer module loading, and tooling enhancements like uuidgen and iostat -E improvements. He blends deep OS-level expertise with practical automation skills—authoring build systems, packaging for SVR4/DEB/IPS and improving release pipelines. Colleagues rely on him for performance troubleshooting and reliable production rollouts across complex storage stacks. An interesting detail: he remains an active illumos hacker while transitioning those low-level skills into cloud-native deployment and CI/CD at scale.
17 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
il10
device-driver10
c-programming10
operating-system10
networking9
filesystem7
uid6
uuid6
bash5
script5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
illumos/illumos-gate
Sep 2010 - Sep 2022
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:60 commits in 12 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's contributions primarily focus on improving the Illumos operating system. They made changes to the Realtek Gigabit Ethernet (rge) driver, addressing stalls during network receive load. They also fixed unsafe operations with configuration files in the modload functions and enhanced the "iostat -E" command by adding the display of serial numbers. Moreover, the user modified the be_utils library and added support for the new command "uuidgen".
operating-systemunixillumosos
alhazred/omnios-build
May 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 years 1 month
build-systemomnios
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