Kyle Mcmartin
Production Engineer, Kernel at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Mcmartin is a seasoned kernel and production engineer with 26 years of experience, currently shaping Linux kernel reliability at Meta from Menlo Park. He has a long track record maintaining distribution and enterprise kernels at Red Hat, Canonical, and Facebook, and has managed teams supporting the Linux kernel at Facebook scale. His hands-on strengths include low-level debugging, protection fault fixes, IPv6 and architecture-specific optimizations—evidenced by contributions to embedded Power Architecture code in the mpc5200 repo. An electrical engineering graduate from Carleton, he pairs deep systems-level expertise with production engineering rigor and a surprisingly old-school preference for CVS in a Git-centric world.
26 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical Engineering at Carleton University
English, French
Github Skills (9)
c1710
kernel10
debugging10
embedded10
debug10
c1110
system-programming10
sys10
kernel-mode10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Jan 2006 - Mar 2011
Digispeaker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:106 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the `mpc5200` repository, likely focused on the Power Architecture (parisc) related to embedded systems. The user's commits involve fixing kernel issues, including protection ID traps, IPv6 checksum errors, and kernel crashes. They also optimized code by refactoring and using optimized CPU instructions, alongside exporting length of os_hpmc vector. The user demonstrates expertise in low-level system programming and debugging kernel-level problems.
jkkm/linux
Nov 2010 - Mar 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 2 years 3 months
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