Jesse Brandeburg
Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarJesse Brandeburg is a Principal Systems Engineer with 26 years of experience, currently leading performance engineering efforts at Cloudflare from Portland, Oregon. He specializes in Linux kernel and networking, with a proven history at Intel of developing drivers, kernel enhancements, and hardware offload features that improve NIC performance and reliability. A hands-on mentor and cross-team leader, he trains engineers, advises management, and regularly presents tough technical questions at conferences and on mailing lists. Jesse is an active open-source contributor—his kernel work includes bug fixes, DMA and interrupt handling improvements, and new hardware support—bridging product engineering with the wider Linux networking community. He combines low-level systems expertise with a talent for people development and a genuine enthusiasm for cars and computers that keeps him creatively engaged.
26 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
150reputation
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Github Skills (16)
c1710
kernel10
interrupt10
interrupt-handling10
driver10
c1110
system-programming10
linux-kernel10
performance-optimization10
dma10
eto9
sctp8
jenkins6
git6
gitk6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Nov 2005 - Feb 2011
Digispeaker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:220 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jesse contributed to the Linux kernel network drivers, specifically for Intel network interface cards (NICs). Their commits involved fixing bugs, implementing new features, and improving the efficiency of the drivers. The work included modifications related to DMA mapping and unmapping, interrupt handling, and hardware offload for SCTP checksums, demonstrating a focus on low-level network performance and reliability. They also added support for new hardware.
jbrandeb/netperf
Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
This is a fork of netperf. I've got local fixes and will consider pull requests. Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It provides tests for both unidirectional throughput, and end-to-end latency.
Contributions:8 PRs, 17 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 8 months
end-to-endlatencynetworkingunidirectionalbenchmark
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