Allison Henderson
Staff Software Engineer at DDN
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Henderson is a senior software engineer and upstream Linux kernel maintainer with 8+ years focused on storage, filesystems, and networking, currently stewarding the RDS subsystem and stabilizing RDS-TCP. She combines deep C and kernel-space expertise with practical test-harness development (kselftest, gcovr) and a proven record of diagnosing and fixing high-impact production kernel bugs across enterprise UEKs. Her background spans XFS and ext4 development, tape firmware and device drivers, NFS-Ganesha integrations, and Power KVM virtualization—skills that let her bridge low-level kernel mechanics and cloud-scale storage needs. Based in Tucson, she brings both long-standing enterprise experience from IBM and Oracle and a habit of driving downstream alignment by porting and hardening upstream patches. An often-overlooked strength is her focus on automated regression frameworks that make complex kernel changes auditable and repeatable.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (8)
linux-kernel9
kernel7
linux6
testing5
git4
filesystem3
oracle2
oracle-linux1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
allisonhenderson/xfs_work
Sep 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 51 pushes, 232 branches in 5 years 6 months
allisonhenderson/rds_work
Jan 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 50 branches in 2 years 2 months
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