Kent Russell
Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Russell is a seasoned kernel engineer with 10+ years at AMD, currently a Member of Technical Staff focused on the ROCm stack and deep work in amdgpu/amdkfd. He authored and owned the rocm-smi CLI, demonstrating both low-level systems expertise and a pragmatic approach to tooling for GPU management. His background spans senior engineering and customer support roles, giving him a rare blend of production-grade development and direct user-facing troubleshooting experience. Based in Old Toronto, he combines a Software Engineering degree from University of Toronto Scarborough with hands-on hardware-adjacent kernel development. Colleagues can rely on him to navigate complex driver interactions and maintain stability across the Linux GPU stack. An early hobbyist webmaster and camp computers coordinator, he brings long-standing curiosity about systems and networks to his professional work.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering at University of Toronto at Scarborough
Github Skills (64)
opencl10
bitbake10
gpu-programming10
linux10
blas10
linux-kernel10
amd10
kernel10
thunk10
manjaro10
oneapi10
roc10
driver10
gpu10
cuda10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ROCm/ROCT-Thunk-Interface
Aug 2015 - Aug 2022
ROCm's Thunk Interface
Contributions:1 review, 116 commits, 22 PRs in 7 years 1 month
thunkradeonradeon-open-computecompute
ROCm/ROC-smi
Apr 2016 - Oct 2020
ROC System Management Interface
Contributions:194 commits, 14 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 years 7 months
management-systemroc
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