Bernard Metzler
IBM Representative And Primary Contact At The UALink Consortium
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolBernard Metzler is a Principal Research Scientist and Technical Leader in High Performance I/O at IBM Research Europe – Zurich, with 16+ years driving distributed systems and IO subsystem innovation for cloud-native HPC and serverless frameworks. He champions whole-stack optimization across middleware like SpectrumScale and HDFS, and has played key roles in ExaScale projects including BlueGene Active Storage, the Human Brain Project, and SKA radio-astronomy efforts. An active open-source maintainer and contributor (Apache Crail incubating project, Linux RDMA, SoftiWARP driver), he also holds 20+ patents and is an author on multiple papers and an IETF RFC. Bernard represents IBM in industry standards bodies — on the OpenFabrics Alliance board, the InfiniBand Link Working Group, the Ultra Ethernet Consortium and UALink — combining deep kernel-to-cloud expertise with strategic standardization influence. A PhD-trained networking researcher based in Zurich, he blends long-term academic rigor with hands-on systems engineering at production scale.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Diploma in Electrical Engineering at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinPhD Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, PhD Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Technische Universität Braunschweig
Github Skills (74)
rdma10
daemons10
distro10
aix10
linux10
linux-kernel10
zen10
kernel10
userspace10
upstream10
manjaro10
libc9
infiniband9
java9
launchpad8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zrlio/softiwarp
Jun 2016 - Aug 2023
SoftiWARP: Software iWARP kernel driver and user library for Linux
Contributions:5 PRs, 54 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 3 months
kerneldriverskernel-driverlinuxiwarp
zrlio/softiwarp-for-linux-rdma
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:27 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
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