Javier González
Principal Engineer Open-Source Lead SSDR R&D Center Lead at Samsung Electronics
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolJavier González is a Principal Engineer and open-source lead based in Copenhagen with 13 years of experience building systems software and developer ecosystems for next-generation SSD technologies. He founded and leads Samsung Semiconductor Denmark Research (SSDR), driving Linux kernel and user-space contributions, maintaining subsystems and libraries, and engaging with standards bodies like NVMe and SNIA. Previously he was a founding member of CNEX’s Open-Channel SSD team and the primary author of pblk, the Linux kernel FTL for LightNVM, blending deep kernel engineering with product and controller co-design. His background spans applied research—earning a PhD focused on run-time security primitives and TrustZone integration—to industrializing open-source workflows, CI practices, and community enablement through talks and collaboration. Colleagues describe him as a doer who cultivates ownership and a tribal, trust-based team culture while translating research prototypes into production-ready storage software.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Thesis, Software Development Technologies, Master's Thesis, Software Development Technologies at IT-Universitetet i KøbenhavnB.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, B.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering at Universidad de ValladolidPrøve i Dansk 3 (PD3), Danish Language, Prøve i Dansk 3 (PD3), Danish Language at IA Sprog
Spanish, English, Danish
Github Skills (97)
command-line-interface10
bigtable10
storage-engine10
software-design10
lsm-tree10
aix10
persistent-storage10
ssds10
lru10
netbsd10
database10
cli10
key-value-store10
storage10
persistent10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
javigon/linux
Jan 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:33 pushes, 23 branches, 11 comments in 5 years 2 months
kernelopen-channelkernel-sourcelinuxlinux-kernel
OpenChannelSSD/lightnvm-hw
Jun 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 7 months
implementationsuseful-toolsqemussdhardware
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