Kan Liang
Principal Linux Kernel Engineer at Oracle
Laguna Hills, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKan Liang is a Principal Linux Kernel Engineer with 11+ years driving performance monitoring and tracing in the Linux kernel, now serving as a key reviewer and maintainer of the perf events subsystem. He leads kernel driver development and KVM-related performance features, having driven new hardware performance monitoring capabilities while at Intel and now at Oracle. Known for deep debugging and tracing expertise, he bridges hardware teams and the open-source community to shepherd complex performance features from silicon to kernel. Trained at Peking University and Xi'an Jiaotong University, he combines rigorous academic grounding with a decade of production-critical contributions to Linux performance infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Software Engineering, Master, Software Engineering at Peking UniversityBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Github Skills (60)
linux10
kernel10
beagleboard10
upstream9
mido9
distro9
perf9
manjaro9
ptrace9
external8
performance-tuning8
subsystem8
audio8
lustre8
clap8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kliang2/perf
Mar 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:45 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 10 months
kliang2/perfmon
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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