Andrew Theurer
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Theurer is a Distinguished Engineer with over two decades of experience focused on performance engineering for Linux, virtualization, hypervisors, and cloud scalability. Based in Austin, he has driven OS, hypervisor, and cloud performance work at Red Hat and IBM, progressing from Linux performance engineer to senior technical leadership. His expertise spans NUMA, KVM, NFV, networking, benchmarks, and real-world scalability troubleshooting that optimize large-scale virtualized deployments. Known for blending deep systems-level analysis with pragmatic engineering, he routinely translates low-level profiling into measurable production improvements. Colleagues rely on him for solving thorny performance regressions and for shaping platform-level performance strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and brings a rare combination of long-term systems experience and hands-on kernel-to-cloud problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (106)
benchmark10
stress-testing10
performance-testing10
traffic10
automation-framework10
high-speed10
altium-designer10
timestamping10
byte10
benchmarking10
rates10
network-traffic10
performance-analysis10
network-tools9
post-processing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
atheurer/bench-fio
Oct 2019 - Feb 2024
A collection of scripts to help run the Fio benchmark
Contributions:18 pushes, 20 branches in 4 years 4 months
benchmarkbenchmarksbenchmarkingfio
atheurer/roadblock
Jan 2020 - Nov 2024
A tool for providing synchronization services across two or more lines of execution
Contributions:17 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 10 months
golangexecutionlinessynchronization
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