Kleber Sacilotto de Souza
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolKleber Sacilotto de Souza is an Engineering Manager based in Hamburg with over 15 years of deep Linux and kernel engineering experience, now leading multiple teams at Canonical and overseeing updates for more than 100 kernels. He progressed from kernel developer to manager at Canonical after prior roles at IBM and ProfitBricks, where he designed high-performance storage and InfiniBand transport layers and ported drivers across architectures. Kleber combines hands-on device driver expertise (network, storage, graphics) with a strong track record in performance analysis, QA automation, and cross-team hardware-software integration. He mentors engineers to raise quality and delivery standards while keeping close to upstream open-source development practices. A pragmatic problem-solver, he brings rare experience shipping kernel-level solutions across diverse platforms and vendors.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
2001 Computer Technician, 2001 Computer Technician at Colégio Técnico de Limeira2006 Bachelor of Computer Science, 2006 Bachelor of Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (40)
distro10
upstream10
manjaro10
oracle-linux10
ubuntu9
linux-distribution9
linux-kernel9
linux9
kernel9
oracle9
zen8
surface-duo7
surface7
operating-system7
audio6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
maitrungduc1410/ubuntu-xenial
Nov 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3515 commits in 3 years 1 month
initdc/focal
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:934 commits in 1 year 6 months
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