Brian Atkinson
Research Assistant And Grader at Clemson University
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Atkinson is a systems-focused software engineer and graduate student with eight years of experience building robust backend and storage solutions. Based in Myrtle Beach, he contributes to core OpenZFS development—refactoring the Advanced Buffer Data layer, adding a gang ABD type, fixing race conditions, and implementing Direct I/O and raidz tests—demonstrating deep low-level and reliability expertise. As a research assistant and grader at Clemson he blends academic rigor with practical engineering, having also researched resilience methods at Los Alamos. He graduated top of his class in Computer Science (4.0) and is completing graduate work in computer engineering, combining strong theoretical foundations with hands-on contributions to a widely used open-source filesystem.
7 years of coding experience
Master's Degree, Computer Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Engineering at Clemson UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at Coastal Carolina University
Github Skills (10)
c1710
filesystem10
c1110
system-programming10
linux-kernel9
kernel9
data-structure7
data-structures7
memory-management7
test-automation6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openzfs/zfs
May 2020 - May 2022
OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Role in this project:
Backend & Systems Developer
Backend & Systems DeveloperContributions:337 reviews, 21 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the core ZFS codebase, specifically focusing on the Advanced Buffer Data (ABD) implementation. Their work involved refactoring and enhancing the ABD structure, including introducing the gang ABD type to facilitate chained ABDs. The user also addressed several race conditions, optimized memory management related to linear pages, and implemented Direct I/O support, including ensuring data integrity through checksum validation. Moreover, the user enhanced the ZFS test suite by adding functionality for raidz tests.
openzfstarballlinuxfreebsdsystem-software
bwatkinson/xdd
Oct 2018 - Oct 2024
XDD - The eXtreme dd toolset
Contributions:1 PR, 59 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 1 month
toolsetextremexdd
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