Ben Romer
Kernel Software Engineer at Canonical Ltd.
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBen Romer is a kernel software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, debugging, and upstreaming Linux kernel features, currently building Canonical's Livepatch service to deliver reboot-free security fixes to Ubuntu users. He specializes in security, virtualization, and low-level systems work, with a history of getting commercial drivers and kernel patches accepted into upstream Linux and being recognized among top contributors multiple releases. Comfortable across languages and OSes, Ben has led scrum teams, acted as a scrum master for kernel upstream efforts, and built secure networking and virtualized service stacks for sensitive environments. His background includes embedded BMC development, custom network protocols, and creating tooling to automate complex kernel patch workflows—skills that pair deep systems insight with practical automation. Based in Pennsylvania, he brings a generalist’s mindset: extracting common concepts across domains to rapidly apply past learning to new, high-assurance engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, 3.52, BS, Computer Science, 3.52 at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
English
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Github Skills (14)
steam10
compatibility10
proton10
wine10
steamworks10
bit9
manjaro7
distro7
upstream6
linux4
spice4
kernel3
linux-kernel3
streaming1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ben-romer/LinusTrinus
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
TrinusVR streaming server for Linux
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 1 day
streaming-serverlinuxstreaming
ben-romer/wine
May 2019 - May 2019
Wine with a bit of extra spice
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
winespicebit
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