Laurent Vivier
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Saint-Joseph-de-Rivière, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolLaurent Vivier is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building low-level and high-performance systems, currently contributing at Red Hat from his base in Saint-Joseph-de-Rivière, France. His career spans deep kernel, storage and interconnect work—from improving Linux filesystems and KVM/QEMU to developing Bull’s eXascale interconnect and InfiniBand stacks—bringing rare expertise at the intersection of OS internals and HPC networking. He began programming on a ZX Spectrum hand-coding Z80A machine instructions, a background that explains his comfort with machine-level detail and long-term focus on performance and reliability. Known for pragmatic engineering across large enterprise and open-source contexts, he combines systems design, simulation, and production-grade implementation to solve complex distributed and high-throughput problems.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Software engineering, Software engineering at Université Grenoble AlpesLycée Edouard Herriot - VoironCollège Notre Dame des VictoiresLycée Notre Dame des Victoires
French, English, Italian
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Github Skills (15)
bootloader10
embedded10
virtual-hosts10
c-programming10
buildroot10
sys10
virtualization10
linux-kernel9
680009
kernel8
kernel-mode8
performance-optimization8
automations7
automation7
testing4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vivier/phomemo-tools
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
CUPS driver for Phomemo Label Printer
Contributions:31 commits, 9 PRs, 55 pushes in 14 days
driverbluetooth-printer
vivier/linux-user-test-scrips
Jun 2018 - Aug 2025
Contributions:23 pushes in 7 years 3 months
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