Juri Lelli
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolJuri Lelli is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience specializing in Linux kernel development, real-time scheduling, and open source systems engineering. He is the maintainer of the SCHED_DEADLINE patchset (merged into mainline Linux since 3.14), bringing deep expertise in deadline scheduling and kernel internals to roles at Red Hat and ARM. His background spans embedded and mobile systems, wireless sensor networks, and full-stack web tooling, with strong C/C++ and systems programming skills complemented by scripting and web languages. A PhD-trained researcher from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and a University of Pisa alumnus, he combines rigorous academic grounding with production-grade engineering at scale. Based in Tuscany, he is driven to lead R&D efforts in prestigious open source-centric organizations and often bridges low-level kernel work with applied system deployment.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at University of Pisa
English
Github Skills (13)
c1710
locking10
scheduling10
algorithms10
sched10
c1110
linux-kernel10
concurrency10
scheduler10
real-time-systems9
system-programming9
kernel-mode9
kernel9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jlelli/linux
Jun 2017 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 80 pushes, 76 branches in 8 years 10 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
ystk/sched-deadline
Nov 2010 - Jan 2013
Contributions:173 commits in 2 years 2 months
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