Brian Kocoloski
Datacenter Performance Architect
United States
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Top SchoolBrian Kocoloski is a Datacenter Performance Architect with a decade of experience optimizing low-level systems and memory subsystems for high-performance environments. He transitioned from academic research and teaching roles into applied systems engineering at USC ISI and now AMD, bringing a Ph.D. in Computer Science to bear on production datacenter challenges. His open-source contributions to the nanovms/nanos kernel—reworking memory-management primitives, adding runtime mmap/mremap tests, and implementing ftrace—underscore a pragmatic focus on reliability and observability in virtualized contexts. Colleagues rely on him for bridging rigorous research methods with hands-on fixes that reduce silent failures, such as subtle signal- and PTE-related bugs. Based in the United States, he combines deep systems expertise with a track record of shipping durable infrastructure improvements at scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of DaytonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
memory-management10
unikernel10
c1110
virtualization10
operating-system10
testing9
system-calls9
vector6
data-structures6
depth-first-search6
linux6
linux-kernel6
allocation6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nanovms/nanos
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
A kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 40 PRs, 140 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the `nanos` kernel by addressing code quality issues and implementing new features and tests related to the memory management system. They fixed missing newlines in error messages and added a runtime test suite for `mmap`, `munmap`, `mincore`, and `mremap` to enhance the reliability of memory operations. Furthermore, the user reimplemented the `mincore` functionality and updated PTE traversal. In addition, the user addressed a bug related to signal handling and implemented ftrace.
kerneloperating-systemssecuritysandboxlinux
briankoco/varbench
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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