Dan Kalowsky
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Qualcomm
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDan Kalowsky is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years building firmware, kernel and userland systems in C, C++, and C#, currently driving platform and firmware work at Qualcomm and serving as Zephyr Release Manager. He combines deep expertise in power management, kernel debugging, UEFI/ATF/TF-A, and Zephyr RTOS with a strong track record of improving build and runtime efficiency at scale—from cutting multi-hour builds to minutes to eliminating memory leaks in critical Linux tooling like PowerTOP. A pragmatic cross-platform engineer and release steward, he architects CI/CD for firmware, leads platform bring-up for Arm servers, and mentors teams on code quality and best practices. Based in Portland, he brings both systems-level rigor and a product-minded focus on requirements and release management. Outside work he teaches skiing, showing a knack for clear instruction and patience that complements his technical leadership.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Science, BS, Information Science at Drexel UniversityJohns Hopkins University
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Github Skills (15)
memory-management10
linux10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
optmization10
optimisation10
performance-optimization10
optimization10
system-programming9
debug8
debugging8
git6
changelog6
github6
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fenrus75/powertop
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
The Linux PowerTOP tool -- please post patches to the mailing list instead of using github pull requests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on improving the stability and efficiency of the `powertop` tool. Their contributions involved addressing memory leaks within the codebase, particularly in areas related to display tabs, results storage, and tuning configurations. Additionally, the user implemented a clean shutdown function and ensured buffer overflows were mitigated to prevent potential issues in the application's output and reporting. The user also made changes to ensure code adheres to best practices.
mailing-listlinuxmailingpull-requestspatches
dkalowsk/dotfiles
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
A collection of dot files that I use
Contributions:631 commits, 48 PRs, 243 pushes in 5 years 7 months
dotkarabinerlinuxdot-filesdotfiles
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