Jim Kukunas
Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Kukunas is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience optimizing Linux and user/kernel software to showcase Intel Architecture. Self-taught from QBASIC and x86 assembly as a teen, he refined his theoretical CS foundation at Allegheny College before joining Intel’s Open Source Technology Center to deliver performance-focused innovations. Author of "Power and Performance: Software Analysis and Optimization," he blends deep systems programming in C, C++, Go and assembly with practical tool-building and performance analysis. Based in the Greater Pittsburgh region, Jim is known for turning low-level insights into measurable system gains and for bridging academic rigor with production-grade engineering.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Allegheny College
Github Skills (76)
bcache10
compression10
optimization10
linux10
dotnet10
zlib10
zen10
deflate10
csharp10
inflate10
xamarin10
linux-kernel9
azure9
subsystem9
libc9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
intel/zlib
Jul 2013 - Dec 2022
Contributions:141 commits, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 9 years 6 months
HarukaNetwork/haruka-workstation-kernel
May 2016 - Nov 2019
Haruka Workstation kernel, intended for Arch Linux. For support -->
Contributions:3 commits in 3 years 5 months
kernelworkstationlinuxarchlinuxarch-linux
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