Brad Figg
Sr. System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Figg is a senior system software engineer with 17 years focused on Linux kernel development and team leadership, currently driving system software at NVIDIA from Beaverton, Oregon. He has deep experience building and managing globally distributed kernel teams at Canonical, shepherding Ubuntu kernels for cloud partners like AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle while balancing delivery cadence with individual career growth. Known as a people-first leader, he emphasizes psychological safety, coaching, and removing obstacles so engineers can excel. Technically hands-on earlier in his career, he designed tooling and automated testing to produce regular, reliable kernel updates and has a track record that spans startups to Intel. Colleagues rely on him as both a technical escalator and a pragmatic bridge between engineering, product and external partners.
17 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Montana State University-BozemanOregon State University
Github Skills (37)
driver9
azure8
audio8
command-line-interface8
azure-cli8
linux-kernel8
linux7
kernel6
microk8s6
snap6
k8s5
omap5
iot5
cicd5
kubernetes4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bjf/figgy-nvim
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
bjf/maasapi
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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