Christopher Riedl
Staff Software Engineer at Fastly
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Riedl is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in pre- and post-silicon validation, Linux kernel and userspace development, and CPU/GPU/SoC design verification. He has driven datacenter GPU validation at AMD and contributed to POWER9/10 chip development and firmware at IBM, bringing deep hardware-software integration expertise. Proficient in C, C++, Python, git, and Linux, he builds robust low-level systems and validation frameworks that bridge silicon bring-up to production software. His background includes SoC verification for video codecs at Apple and kernel hardening and cryptography optimization in open source, demonstrating a balance of performance engineering and security-minded design. Based in the United States, he combines academic teaching experience in operating systems with hands-on industry delivery, often focusing on the tricky interactions between hardware behavior and kernel/userland software.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering at Penn State University
English, German
Github Skills (22)
python8
linter8
syntax-highlighting5
static-typing5
markdown5
kernel4
highlighter4
html4
renderer3
syntax-highlighter3
linux-kernel3
typechecker2
linux2
bitmap1
linux-distribution1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cmr-informatik/linux
May 2019 - Jan 2021
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:147 pushes, 53 branches in 1 year 7 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
wrwlf/wrwlf.github.io
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:35 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
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