Guenter Roeck
Staff Engineer at Google
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGuenter Roeck is a Staff Engineer based in California with 16+ years of experience architecting and delivering high-performance networking and Linux-based systems for companies such as Google, Juniper, Ericsson, and Cisco. He combines deep kernel and networking expertise with product-minded leadership, holding contributions upstream to the Linux kernel (notably hwmon) and QEMU and driving test infrastructure that builds and validates 100+ kernel configurations. A prolific inventor, his work has generated over 20 granted patents and 40+ applications across fault tolerance, congestion management, and system architecture. Guenter has repeatedly translated market needs into technical roadmaps—rearchitecting large-scale systems (CMTS and cable products) and guiding product pivots at startups as CTO. Equally at home in open source communities and corporate engineering, he bridges upstream collaboration with pragmatic product delivery. His background in both low-level kernel hacking and high-level product strategy gives him a rare ability to ship robust, standards-aligned networking products at scale.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Equivalent to MSCS, MSEE, Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Equivalent to MSCS, MSEE at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Github Skills (43)
monitoring10
debug10
system-programming10
monitor10
qemu10
architecture10
linux10
watchdog10
usb10
abstraction10
c-programming10
abstraction-layer10
c1110
linux-kernel10
hardware10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
groeck/coccinelle-patches
Jan 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:231 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
groeck/k10temp
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
Temperature sensor driver for AMD Family 10h and later
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 9 months
amdi2csensortemperaturetemperature-sensor
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