Kamal Mostafa
Senior Software Engineer, BaseOS Team at NVIDIA
Atascadero, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKamal Mostafa is a senior software engineer and cloud infrastructure architect with 26 years of experience building high-performance systems, from embedded firmware to large-scale cloud services. He invented and operated Ubuntu Kernel Team’s distributed, scalable cloud-based build service that cut kernel build-test cycles from hours to minutes and sustained 24x7 uptime across AWS and OpenStack. A long-time Debian developer and prolific open-source contributor, Kamal has improved stability and core functionality in notable projects such as KDE's Kdenlive and distcc, and implemented FFT-based demodulation work for a software FSK modem. His background spans kernel backports, petabyte-scale EDA data layers, and low-level device firmware, giving him rare end-to-end expertise across hardware-adjacent and cloud-native domains. Based in Atascadero, CA, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with a track record of mentoring teams and automating workflows that were originally driven by his own productivity needs. Colleagues rely on him for decisive technical judgment on tricky integration and performance problems that impact production systems.
26 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma AP College-prep, High School Diploma AP College-prep at York SchoolUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (22)
fftw10
c-language10
qt10
signal-processing10
build-system10
audio-processing10
environment-variables10
c1110
c1710
video-editing10
fft10
pulseaudio10
cprogramming-language10
digital-signal-processing9
linux9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kamalmostafa/minimodem
May 2011 - Aug 2021
general-purpose software audio FSK modem
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:321 commits, 13 PRs, 21 pushes in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kamal implemented and debugged core functionalities for a software audio FSK modem. Their contributions involved the use of pulse audio for audio capture and analysis via the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) using the FFTW3 library. The user also worked on the development of functions to demodulate FSK signals, including carrier detection, and the generation of the final decoded characters.
audiomodem
distcc/distcc
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
distributed builds for C, C++ and Objective C
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 16 days
Contributions summary:Kamal primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements related to the `distcc` build system. Their work involved addressing issues related to include file handling, improving the usability and configurability of the build process by introducing new environment variables for pause and backoff times, and fixing a compilation error. Additionally, the user refactored routines used for argument passing.
cppobjective-c
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