Marcelo Leitner
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Paraná, Brazil
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Top SchoolMarcelo Leitner is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years focused on Linux kernel and networking, currently driving kernel networking features, hardware offload projects, and upstream maintenance at Red Hat. He combines deep C/C++ kernel development and low-level debugging (ftrace, perf, crash, systemtap) with practical experience in virtualization, SDN/Open vSwitch, and ARM BSPs, regularly backporting and stabilizing features for RHEL. Marcelo is known for taking end-to-end ownership of complex network issues—from driver and datapath fixes to protocol-level improvements—and for converting project ideas into clear specifications and estimates. His background spans embedded Linux, real-time firmware and networking stacks, giving him a rare blend of kernel, hardware, and embedded systems expertise. Based in Paraná, Brazil, he pairs hands-on technical leadership with upstream stewardship as the maintainer of the kernel SCTP stack and lead for Conntrack and OvS hardware offload efforts.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Eletronics, Engineering, Eletronics at Federal University of Technology - Parana
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (9)
c1710
memory-management10
system-programming10
linux-kernel10
c1110
networking10
sctp10
debug9
security8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
marceloleitner/perf-flower
Mar 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
sctp/lksctp-tools
Nov 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 62 commits, 18 PRs in 7 years 2 months
manjarolinuxhelper-librarysctpchroot
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