Kiryl Shutsemau
Software Engineer at Meta
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKiryl Shutsemau is a veteran software engineer with 26 years of hands-on expertise in Linux kernel internals, embedded systems, ARM platforms and virtualization, now working on kernel development at Meta. He spent over a decade at Intel driving TDX guest enablement, memory-management features (5-level paging, MTE, TME), and scalability improvements, and is an upstream maintainer with deep low-level systems experience. Kiryl is an active contributor to torvalds/linux—implementing x86 topology, MTRR/TDX/PAT changes and optimizations—and has improved cross-platform tooling like libgit2 through bug fixes and test automation. Comfortable across distributions, toolchains and device trees, he blends system architecture thinking with meticulous kernel hacking. Colleagues rely on him to shape architecture to fit Linux while keeping complex features maintainable and performant.
26 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Minski Dzjaržauny Vysheysy Radyjotekhnichny KaledgeMaster, Informatics, Master, Informatics at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, Russian, Russian
Github Skills (22)
git10
testing10
memory-management10
c-programming10
c1110
linux-kernel10
x8610
c1710
kernel10
optimisation10
cprogramming-language10
concurrency10
optimization10
data-structure9
algorithms9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
libgit2/libgit2
Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:43 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kiryl primarily contributed to the `libgit2` library by fixing bugs and improving code quality. Their work included resolving an endless loop issue in the filebuf module and removing trailing spaces to improve readability. Furthermore, the user implemented and refined the index functionality, including implementing and optimizing vector sorting and de-duplication procedures. The user also addressed several compiler warnings across multiple source files.
version-controlgit-clientlibgit2dvcscross-platform
kiryl/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:20 pushes in 8 years
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