Leo Korinth
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Korinth is a Principal Member of Technical Staff based in Stockholm with over eight years of experience building low-level, high-performance software and highly available systems. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from KTH and has deep expertise in garbage collection and JVM internals, contributing to OpenJDK’s G1 collector while working on HotSpot at Oracle. His background spans embedded and telecom platforms at Ericsson—working with OSE, PowerPC, JIT compilers and accelerated network processors—as well as cross-platform imaging and enterprise Java systems. He favors functional programming and static typing, having studied Scala and Haskell, and enjoys marrying elegant algorithmic solutions with systems engineering. Comfortable in large international teams, he thrives on designing redundant, restart-resilient architectures for mission-critical services. Uncommonly for a systems engineer, he actively blends interests in physics/biology applications and low-level computer architecture into his engineering practice.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Introduction to Functional Programming, Introduction to Functional Programming at Delft University of TechnologyMaster of Science in Engineering, Degree Programme in Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering, Degree Programme in Computer Science and Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyFunctional Programming in Haskell: Supercharge Your Coding, Functional Programming in Haskell: Supercharge Your Coding at The University of GlasgowFunctional Programming Principles in Scala, Functional Programming Principles in Scala at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneNatural Sciences, Natural Sciences at Östra Reals Gymnasium
Swedish, English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
javas10
jvm10
java10
garbage-collection10
openjdk9
c-language8
concurrency8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openjdk/jdk
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
JDK main-line development https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:156 reviews, 13 commits, 59 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Leo's contributions primarily involve modifications to the Java Development Kit (JDK), specifically focusing on the garbage collection (GC) subsystem. They addressed issues and improved efficiency within the G1 (Garbage-First) garbage collector, including code cleanups, and resolving bugs. Their work directly impacts the performance and stability of the JVM.
openjdkjavajvmjdk
lkorinth/jdk
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
JDK main-line development
Contributions:81 pushes, 112 branches in 4 years 2 months
javajvmjdk
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