Bryan Gurney
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Gurney is a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years focused on high-performance block storage, deduplication, compression, and large-scale storage management, currently contributing to Red Hat’s VDO in RHEL. He combines deep Linux block-layer optimization and database performance tuning with hands-on troubleshooting to deliver high customer availability and root-cause diagnosis for flash and disk-based systems. Bryan’s background spans enterprise backup operations and OLTP SQL Server environments managing petabytes of DAS/NAS/SAN, giving him a rare end-to-end view from hardware throughput to application behavior. A tenacious problem-solver and PC hardware enthusiast, he applies system-building and I/O bottleneck analysis techniques to squeeze predictable performance from complex stacks. Outside work he pursues electronic music production and amateur DJing and competes in autocross, reflecting a pragmatic blend of technical precision and creative curiosity.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Natick High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology
French, Japanese
Github Skills (77)
python10
system10
automation10
systemd10
ssh10
network-configuration10
xfs10
init10
linux10
device-mapper10
stratis10
bindgen10
ansible10
dbus-python10
rust10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bgurney-rh/testing
Feb 2021 - Apr 2025
Tests to be run agains the installed packages
Contributions:288 pushes, 93 branches in 4 years 2 months
testinginstalled
stratis-storage/libcryptsetup-rs
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Bindings for libcryptsetup using bindgen and a higher level API wrapper
Contributions:23 reviews, 97 commits, 136 PRs in 2 years 11 months
bindgen
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