Konrad Wilk
Vice President Of Linux Kernel Development at Oracle
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKonrad Wilk is a veteran kernel engineer and technology leader with 26 years of experience, currently serving as Vice President of Linux Kernel Development at Oracle, where his teams have contributed over 730K lines of code and rank among the top corporate contributors to the Linux kernel. He directs global engineering efforts across virtualization, security, filesystems, networking, RDMA, storage, memory management, schedulers, cgroups, and containers to optimize Oracle Linux for Exadata, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and other flagship products. A long-time maintainer and committer in upstream Linux and Xen projects, Konrad has driven major features such as PVH guest mode and collaborated on livepatching and virtualization integrations used broadly in cloud and engineered systems. He combines deep subsystem expertise with cross-community influence—balancing upstream stewardship with product-driven delivery—and is known for mentoring engineers and rapidly turning research into production-quality kernel features. Based in Somerville, MA, he remains an avid learner who intentionally blends academic rigor (MS in Computer Science) with practical, high-impact open source contributions.
26 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of New Orleans
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Github Skills (7)
interrupt10
interrupt-handling10
security-hardening10
xen10
security9
assembly3
x863
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
konradwilk/xen
Apr 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:33 pushes, 133 branches in 3 years 8 months
konradwilk/fibonacci
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 135 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
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