Jes Sorensen
Trained Monkey at Meta Reality Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorJes Sorensen is a seasoned embedded systems and Linux kernel engineer with 26 years of experience, currently focused on Android BSP, device bring-up, and low-level systems at Meta Reality Labs and Facebook. He has a long history of principal and senior engineering roles at Red Hat, SGI, and CERN, and founded Wild Open Source to tackle kernel-level challenges early in his career. Known for bringing up embedded kernels and complex hardware platforms, he blends deep systems expertise with practical troubleshooting under real-world constraints. Based in New York, he routinely operates at the intersection of device bring-up, board support packages, and kernel internals. Colleagues rely on him for hard-to-debug platform issues and for turning prototype hardware into production-capable systems. Despite a tongue-in-cheek title, his track record shows sustained technical leadership across industry and research environments.
26 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, German, Danish, c
Github Skills (6)
package-manager9
kernel8
opensuse8
linux-kernel8
moto7
linux7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jessorensen/rpm
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
jessorensen/rpm-verity
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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