Laurence Oberman
Senior Principal Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLaurence Oberman is a Senior Principal Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat with over a decade of deep experience in UNIX/Linux internals, storage and I/O subsystems, and kernel-level troubleshooting. He specializes in Linux kernel development and upstream contributions, embedded Linux on Xilinx FPGA SoCs, and performance tuning for Oracle RAC and SAP environments. Laurence combines hands-on C, Python and Perl work with recent forays into Rust and large language models/pyTorch, bringing both systems-level rigor and emerging ML tooling to operational problems. His background includes complex diagnostics across HP-UX, Solaris, Tru64 and AIX from long tenures at HP and Red Hat, enabling him to isolate and remediate the most stubborn production issues. Colleagues rely on his excellent troubleshooting and communication skills to translate low-level telemetry into actionable fixes and upstream patches.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSC Eng, Electrical Engineering, MSC Eng, Electrical Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand
Afrikaans, German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
initramfs10
boot10
event-driven9
infrastructure9
toolchain8
modular8
samsung7
llvm7
clang7
kernel6
atomic6
fedora6
linux-kernel6
pandas6
centos6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sharkcz/collectl
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 20 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years 3 months
loberman/collectl
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 14 days
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