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 (88)
python10
system10
automation10
service-manager10
systemd10
ssh10
network-configuration10
xfs10
init10
linux10
stratis10
api10
bindgen10
ansible10
rust10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bgurney-rh/libblkid-rs
Dec 2020 - Feb 2025
Rust bindings for libblkid
Contributions:136 pushes, 95 branches in 4 years 2 months
rustrust-bindingsbinding
bgurney-rh/stratis-docs
Apr 2020 - Feb 2025
Stratis Documentation
Contributions:31 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years 10 months
stratis
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