Konstantin Belousov is a seasoned software engineer with 26 years of experience specializing in FreeBSD, kernel internals, and Unix systems programming. Based in Kyiv, he is a long-standing FreeBSD src committer and technical staff at The FreeBSD Foundation while working at NVIDIA on low-level systems and virtualization. His open-source contributions include timekeeping and kernel synchronization work for RTEMS, porting FreeBSD fixes and adding kqueue timer and userspace gettimeofday integration—demonstrating deep expertise in concurrency, atomics, and VM/process subsystems. Past roles at Mellanox and earlier leadership and development positions reflect a strong track record in networking, embedded/real-time systems, and production-grade kernel engineering. He holds an MS in Mathematics from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, bringing rigorous analytical grounding to complex systems design.
26 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
Mirror only see https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/rtos/rtems
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions:26 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Konstantin's primary contribution is related to timekeeping mechanisms within the RTEMS real-time operating system. The commits involve modifying and improving the `kern_tc.c` file which is crucial for time counter management within the kernel. The user has been merging changes from FreeBSD to RTEMS. Their work focuses on synchronizing time-related data, implementing atomics, and preventing parallel calls to `tc_windup()`. Additionally, they adjusted code for userspace gettimeofday(2) integration and added functionalities for kqueue timers.
Contributions:46 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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