Kirk Crane
Linux On Z Systems Open Source Ecosystem at IBM
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKirk Crane is a seasoned compiler and systems engineer with over 7 years focused on Linux on IBM Z and more than a decade at IBM shaping JIT and PL/X compilers. He currently leads efforts to enable and evangelize open source software on System Z, translating legacy workloads into modern, optimized runtimes. His background spans low-level performance tuning, compiler front-end design, and mentoring—having served on an architecture review board and coached junior developers. Known for practical performance analysis from early internship work porting SPEC benchmarks to System Z, he combines deep platform expertise with a knack for bridging legacy code and contemporary toolchains. Based in Georgetown, Ontario, he brings a rare blend of production compiler experience and open ecosystem advocacy for mainframe Linux.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Management (B.Eng.Mgmt), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Management (B.Eng.Mgmt), Software Engineering at McMaster University
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Github Skills (44)
kubernetes10
risk-analysis10
alerts10
security10
kubernetes-security10
k8s10
hardening10
capistrano9
hat9
codeready9
gocd9
logstash9
workspaces9
jenkins-plugin9
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Github contributions (5)
kcrane/collector
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:40 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
kcrane/codeready-workspaces-theia
May 2020 - Sep 2020
CodeReady Workspaces build of Theia, based on eclipse/che-theia project
Contributions:1 release, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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