Kyle Ambroff-kao
Sr Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Ambroff-kao is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15+ years building resilient systems, currently shaping LinkedIn's data infrastructure after years driving Kafka, Samza, and SRE work. He brings deep systems expertise—C++, Java, Python, Linux, build and release engineering, concurrency, and distributed databases—combined with pragmatic SRE and performance-first instincts that reliably improve uptime and deployability. Kyle has led infrastructure transformations at startups like Jawbone, turning brittle monoliths into automated, scalable SOA pipelines and real-time streaming aggregation backbones. An active open-source contributor to the Haiku OS, he pairs low-level kernel and networking bug fixes with practical tooling improvements, reflecting a rare comfort across OS internals and large-scale cloud services. Colleagues rely on him as the go-to expert for architecture, build systems, and cross-platform reliability while he continues expanding into newer languages and product-facing domains.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
None, Computer Science, None, Computer Science at University of Silicon ValleyCalifornia State University, Sacramento
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
filesystem10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
haiku10
operating-system10
networking9
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
haiku/haiku
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
The Haiku operating system. (Pull requests will be ignored; patches may be sent to https://review.haiku-os.org).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Haiku operating system's core components and file system. Their work involved addressing issues in networking (DNS configuration), kernel components related to file systems (write_overlay), string handling, and various tests. The user also addressed issues in the terminal by fixing crashes related to keystrokes and added some unit tests to test the functionality of the Haiku operating system.
kernelhaiku-osoperating-systemhaikulinux
ambroff/config-files
Jan 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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