Joseph Salisbury
Senior Principal Linux Kernel Engineer at Oracle
Brookline, New Hampshire, United States Other
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Top SchoolJoseph Salisbury is a Senior Principal Linux Kernel Engineer with 13+ years of deep systems experience, now building kernel solutions at Oracle after a long tenure leading real-time kernel work at Canonical. He specializes in Linux kernel development, backporting, debugging and patching across major distributions, and serves as the upstream maintainer for the Linux-5.15-rt real-time patch set. His background blends performance engineering and production stability—tuning kernels and storage stacks at Red Hat, Sun, Dell and IBM and enabling Linux on hyperscale clouds at Microsoft Azure. Joseph routinely bridges upstream development and distro release cycles, drives three-week kernel cadences, and rapidly remediates CVEs to keep production fleets secure. He combines hands-on kernel triage (bisects, oops analysis, backtraces) with automation—maintaining bug bots and pipelines that manage thousands of kernel reports. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, production-first solutions that bring hard real-time behavior to mainstream Linux deployments.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
josephtsalisbury/azure-linux-kernel
Jul 2019 - May 2020
Patches for building an Azure-tuned Linux kernel with Accelerated Networking.
Contributions:22 pushes in 10 months
kernelacceleratedlinuxnetworkingtuned
rancher/linux
Dec 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:193 commits in 2 years 11 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
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