Anthony Basile
Developer at Gentoo Linux
Buffalo, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Basile is a seasoned developer and systems architect with 15 years of professional experience and a deep background in Linux systems, kernel hardening, and build engineering. Based in Buffalo, NY, he leads Gentoo's Hardened Team and maintains critical packages while contributing low-level fixes and modularizing complex build systems (notably refactoring monolithic Makefiles in eudev). He also brings extensive academic and teaching experience as a long-time IT professor who directed curricula and taught courses from assembly to Linux kernel development, blending rigorous theory with practical system design. Anthony has applied his expertise in commercial settings—designing a musl-based POS OS and release engineering pipelines—demonstrating an ability to ship secure, maintainable embedded and infrastructure software. His background in theoretical physics (PhD) and postdoctoral research gives him unusual depth in formal problem-solving that informs his pragmatic, security-focused engineering.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoc, Physical Chemistry, Postdoc, Physical Chemistry at McMaster UniversityPh.D., Theoretical Physics, Ph.D., Theoretical Physics at Cornell UniversityM.Sc., Theoretical Physics, M.Sc., Theoretical Physics at University of GuelphB.Sc., Theoretical Physics, B.Sc., Theoretical Physics at Brock University
English, Italian
Github Skills (6)
build-system10
makefile10
udev10
c119
c179
system-administration9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eudev-project/eudev
Nov 2012 - Aug 2021
Repository for eudev development
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:1 review, 365 commits, 40 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Anthony's primary contributions focused on refactoring and revamping the build system. They broke down the original monolithic `Makefile.am` into modular components within individual directories, streamlining maintainability. Additionally, the user updated the tool used to parse hwdb grammer and fixed code related to parsing and re-writing of persistent storage links and file permissions, indicating a deep understanding of the build process and system-level interactions. They implemented changes related to device node management.
systemdlinuxmintxenlinux-distributionjavascript
gentoo/elfix
Jul 2011 - Nov 2019
[MIRROR] Utilities to fix Elf binaries
Contributions:526 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 8 years 5 months
fixelf-binarieselfbinariespe-analyzer
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