Gavin Shan
Principle Software Engineer at 红帽
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolGavin Shan is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of deep Linux systems experience and over a decade working across kernel subsystems, device drivers, bootloaders, filesystems (notably ext4), PCI, NCSI networking, and ARM64 KVM. He has driven platform bring-up, firmware and virtualization work at IBM and Alibaba, and now leads kernel engineering at Red Hat, maintaining high-impact contributions in the upstream Linux kernel. Gavin combines low-level hardware enablement (bootloader, BSP, firmware) with storage, memory management and performance optimization, making him adept at solving cross-layer production issues. His background spans both hands-on driver development and platform architecture, and he’s known for tackling challenging areas like cold memory reclaim and platform-specific PCI features. Based in Queensland, Australia, he brings a rare mix of sustained upstream open-source contribution and enterprise-grade systems engineering.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Safety Technology & Engineering, Master, Safety Technology & Engineering at Shandong University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (62)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rustyrussell/linux
Feb 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:134 commits in 1 year 5 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
open-power-host-os/linux
Jun 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:92 commits in 9 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
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