Lorenzo Stoakes
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarLorenzo Stoakes is a seasoned Linux kernel engineer with 15 years of systems and low-latency C/C++ experience, currently a Consulting Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle and co-maintainer of the kernel memory management’s mmap and virtual address space logic. He has deep expertise in memory management and driver development from roles at Imagination Technologies and balena—where he was employee #1 and helped port Docker to ARM, including ARMv5 and Raspberry Pi GPU integration. Lorenzo has applied his kernel and systems skills in finance at Squarepoint and WorldQuant building high-performance trading infrastructure, and he’s authored a book on memory management currently in editing. An active open-source contributor, he also improves developer-facing documentation and front-end UX for projects like the balenaCloud docs. Based in Woking, England, he combines low-level engineering rigor with a track record of pragmatic optimizations—once delivering a 100% speedup in a core GPU driver path.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
c1710
html10
css10
doc10
memory-management10
system-programming10
c1110
linux-kernel10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
debugging7
debugprint7
javascript5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
balena-io/docs
Jun 2014 - Jun 2016
Documentation for the balenaCloud platform.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:350 commits, 11 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Lorenzo primarily focused on improving the documentation website's user interface and visual presentation. Their contributions included modifying the HTML structure, adding and centering images, tweaking the CSS for layout, and implementing a video element for the getting-started guide. They also addressed code consistency by removing tabs. The user also updated the documentation site to utilize modern Bootstrap components.
balenaclouddockerowncloud
lorenzo-stoakes/algo-practice
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:68 commits, 15 pushes in 3 months
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