Eugene Syromiatnikov
Software Engineer at OpenSSL Corporation
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolEugene Syromiatnikov is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in Linux system software, device drivers, UAPI, and network/system administration. He has a strong track record in low-level systems development—from PCI and network drivers for HPC adapters to production backports and package maintenance for RHEL—and currently contributes to OpenSSL. Eugene is an active open-source contributor and long-time maintainer/mentor for strace, where he implemented nuanced kernel socket-option and bridge/tun decoding features that aid deep diagnostics. His background includes FPGA/ASIC prototype debugging, high-performance video compositing, and building reproducible build/packaging pipelines, reflecting both hardware-aware and infrastructure-first thinking. Based in Brno, he combines rigorous algorithmic knowledge with practical maintenance skills, often surfacing subtle kernel-level details that improve observability and reliability.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, Czech, German
Github Skills (14)
c1710
kernel10
c1110
kernel-mode10
networking10
software-design9
network-protocol9
datastructures-algorithms8
multicasting8
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
multicast8
data-structure8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
strace/strace
Sep 2016 - Sep 2022
strace is a diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 2261 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Eugene contributed to the implementation of IFLA_INFO_DATA for bridges, adding code for bridge attributes, decoder dispatch tables, and various decoding functions for bridge configuration parameters. They also enhanced the functionality by incorporating support for IFLA_INFO_XSTATS decoding, and added further code to enable the decoding of IFLA_INFO_DATA for tun devices. Furthermore, the user introduced features for more granular decoding of socket option data in the kernel.
userspacestracelinuxdiagnosticdebugging
esyr/strace
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
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