Brennan Lamoreaux
Member Of Technical Staff 2 at VMware
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrennan Lamoreaux is a Linux kernel-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff 2 on VMware’s Photon OS team in Bellevue. He specializes in kernel and OS-level development, build automation, and packaging—contributions to the vmware/photon project include scripting Intel driver builds and improving release pipelines for multiple kernel versions. Prior roles include hands-on firmware engineering internships at HP, giving him practical embedded and connectivity experience that informs his systems work. Known for improving build and release reliability, he combines low-level systems expertise with DevOps-minded automation to streamline production kernels and container hosts.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Woodland High SchoolNone, General Studies, None, General Studies at Clark CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Github Skills (12)
packaging10
sh10
script10
shell10
rpm10
package10
build-automation10
scripting10
packager10
dockers9
docker9
go8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/photon
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Minimal Linux container host
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Brennan's commits primarily focused on enhancing the build and release process within the repository. They added a script to build Intel drivers, enabling the creation of driver RPMs for various kernel versions, and included options for managing patches and source tarballs. Additionally, they modified build scripts and configurations for the Calico and tuned projects. This work demonstrates a focus on improving the build, packaging and release process.
containershostlinuxdockercontainer-linux
bhllamoreaux/kpatch
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
kpatch - live kernel patching
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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