Amir Goldstein
Principal Software Engineer at Alles Coding
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAmir Goldstein is a Principal Software Engineer based in the Netherlands with 16+ years of deep systems experience in C/C++, specializing in filesystems, storage and container-related kernel work. He has led engineering teams and architecture across startups in security, mobile virtualization and cloud storage, notably driving filesystem snapshot features (Next3, OverlayFS snapshots) and coordinating upstream kernel integrations at CTERA. An active open-source maintainer and contributor, he has improved testing and runtime behavior in high-profile projects such as libfuse and the Linux Test Project, and co-maintains core overlayfs functionality used by containers. Known for moving research into production, he pairs low-level expertise with pragmatic QA and automation skills, often representing his teams at conferences. Beyond code, he routinely shepherds features through upstream communities—an indication of both technical depth and influence in Linux storage ecosystems.
16 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Electrical Engineering - Signal Processing, MSc Electrical Engineering - Signal Processing at Tel Aviv UniversityBSc Physics and Computer Science, BSc Physics and Computer Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
English, Hebrew, Dutch
Github Skills (22)
filesystem10
system-programming10
xfs10
fuse10
testing10
linux10
c-programming10
c1110
linux-kernel10
inotify10
c1710
system-calls10
overlayfs10
ext49
posixct9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
linux-test-project/ltp
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
Linux Test Project (mailing list: https://lists.linux.it/listinfo/ltp)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Amir primarily contributed to the inotify subsystem within the Linux Test Project (LTP) repository. Their work focused on fixing compile warnings related to sign comparisons and rewriting existing test cases utilizing a new library. The user also implemented several new test cases to assess and validate inotify directory and file watches under overlayfs, and the correct behavior when using mount/inode marks with or without an ignore mask, which tested regression fixes within the project. They also performed miscellaneous cleanups and optimizations, improved tests to use the test framework helpers and fixed build errors.
unixposixtest-automationtest-projectmanjaro
libfuse/libfuse
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
The reference implementation of the Linux FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) interface
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Amir primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and addressing specific bugs within the `libfuse/libfuse` repository. Their contributions involved fixing test failures related to the xfs file system and ensuring the correct behavior of file operations. Furthermore, the user implemented features to enhance test coverage, such as generating unique filenames and checking for unlinked test files. The user refactored helper functions to improve code clarity and maintainability.
userspacefuselinuxfuse-filesystemfilesystem
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