Amos Kong
CTO, VP Research And Development at Sietium Semiconductor
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolAmos Kong is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 16 years of experience building high-performance system software, silicon-focused R&D, and developer ecosystems from Beijing. He leads 200+ R&D engineers at Sietium Semiconductor, driving GPU architecture, SoC design and tape-out while owning firmware, kernel drivers, SDKs and performance tooling across graphics, media and AI workloads. A hands-on engineer at heart, he previously contributed to upstream open-source projects like ScyllaDB and Seastar and maintained autotest frameworks for KVM/QEMU—work that reflects deep expertise in virtualization, performance tuning and CI/devops for large distributed systems. His background at Red Hat and as a startup co-founder blends enterprise-grade engineering discipline with startup speed and product ops experience. Amos combines hardware-software co-design with practical delivery processes (IPD/Scrum) and ecosystem partnerships to turn research into production silicon and software stacks. Less obvious: he repeatedly bridges low-level kernel/driver work with higher-level tooling (profilers, SDKs, compositors), enabling teams to optimize across the full stack.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications
Chinese, English
Github Skills (44)
libvirt10
kvm10
performance-analytics10
c-language10
performance-monitor10
python10
cassandra10
nosql10
qemu10
scripting10
redis10
testing10
configuration-management10
databases10
linux10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
autotest/autotest
Oct 2009 - Mar 2014
Autotest - Fully automated tests on Linux
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:126 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Amos contributed to the KVM-autotest repository by implementing, testing, and fixing issues related to KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) functionality. Their work includes writing tests for VLAN tagging, addressing login timeouts, converting time drift calculations, adding drive options, fixing memory size matching, and handling VM creation failures in the context of migration. Additionally, the user updated the netperf package, fixed a bug in base_utils.py, and implemented basic file transfer tests. They were also involved in network-related testing.
automated-testsautotestlinuxpythontesting
autotest/tp-qemu
Nov 2009 - Mar 2014
Virt Test Provider for qemu and other related virtualization backends
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:56 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Amos primarily contributed to the `tp-qemu` repository by enhancing and maintaining the netperf test suite. Their work involved adding and modifying tests to improve performance analysis, including the implementation of multi-queue testing and the collection of system information. The user also made improvements to existing tests such as the `migration_with_reboot` test and the `iometer_windows` test, indicating a broad understanding of the testing framework and the virtualization environment. Furthermore, the user fixed typos and addressed issues related to external host testing within the netperf test framework.
qemuvirtualizationpythontesting
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