Joseph Kogut
Embedded Linux Engineer at balena
Yakima, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoseph Kogut is an Embedded Linux Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable Linux-based systems, tooling, and backend services from Yakima, Washington. He specializes in build systems and kernel configuration—having optimized balenaOS image generation and bootloader behavior—and prefers Python for higher-level work. Joseph contributes to prominent open-source projects including Buildroot, Kivy (where he improved cross-platform windowing and SDL/X11 support), and Emscripten, showing comfort across OS internals and application-level UI. His background spans embedded systems engineering, consultant roles, and DevOps-focused build improvements, and he brings practical expertise in VM internals from his TinyVM work. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, low-level fixes that measurably improve build reproducibility and cross-platform compatibility.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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39questions
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Github Skills (49)
buildroot10
python10
package-management10
sdl10
computer-architecture10
windows10
memory-management10
cpu-architecture10
linux10
c1110
makefile10
kivy10
yocto10
c1710
kernel10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jakogut/tinyvm
Jan 2011 - Mar 2018
TinyVM is a small, fast, lightweight virtual machine written in pure ANSI C.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joseph appears to have been a back-end developer heavily involved in the development of a virtual machine. Their work focused on core logic and functionality, as demonstrated by the removal and refactoring of program arguments, memory management, and instruction set implementations. The user also implemented the addition of new instructions and the refactoring of the instruction execution engine, which would improve the overall performance of the virtual machine.
ansi-clinuxansivirtual-machine
balena-os/meta-balena
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
A collection of Yocto layers used to build balenaOS images
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Embedded Systems Engineer / DevOps EngineerContributions:169 reviews, 261 commits, 196 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on the build system and kernel configuration for balenaOS images. Their contributions include enabling and disabling specific kernel features, such as task-accounting and user namespacing. They also made changes to the bootloader configuration and optimized the image build process, notably by improving the grub module installation and image generation process. Furthermore, the user upgraded the Go version used in the build environment.
meta-resinbalenaresinbalenaosdocker
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