James Gowans
Kernel And Hypervsior Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Gowans is a kernel and hypervisor engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating EC2 infrastructure at Amazon Web Services, where he focuses on Linux kernel (C) and userspace (C++/Rust) work to enable novel server oversubscription strategies. He brings deep embedded-systems roots from an honours degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and years teaching and designing STM32F0 development boards, which informs his hardware-aware approach to virtualization and performance. Prior roles at AWS include fleet-wide tooling and recovery automation, giving him a strong mix of low-level systems programming and operational tooling. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he combines rigorous academic training with practical production impact and a demonstrated talent for redesigning courses and development boards—an indicator of both engineering depth and a drive to make complex systems accessible.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA of +70%, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA of +70% at University of Cape TownScholar, Matric with exemption, Matric average of +80%, Scholar, Matric with exemption, Matric average of +80% at St George's Grammar School
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (25)
working-set9
linux8
filesystem7
linux-kernel7
kernel7
rust6
linux-distribution6
stm32f05
simulink5
matlab5
procfs5
bit3
busybox3
64-bit3
hardware3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jgowans/linux
Jun 2019 - Nov 2024
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:33 pushes, 26 branches in 5 years 5 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
jgowans/stm32f0_devel
Apr 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:86 commits, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
dev-boardstm32devcommonlyminimalist
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