Martin Pohlack
Senior Principal Engineer, EC2 At Amazon
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Pohlack is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon EC2 with 15+ years building and optimizing low-level systems, virtualization, and Linux performance at cloud scale. He combines deep academic roots—a Dr.-Ing. in computer science and research in microkernels and real-time systems—with industrial leadership driving virtualization, hotpatching, and scalability across EC2. His background at AMD on hardware transactional memory and Advanced Synchronization Facility informs a rare cross-stack expertise in synchronization, concurrency, and hardware/software co-design. Known for pragmatic debugging and runtime monitoring, he repeatedly turns systems research into production-grade optimizations. Based in Dresden, he blends academic rigor with hands-on engineering, mentoring teams while leading complex infrastructure projects. An uncommon strength is his track record of moving micro-kernel and transactional-memory ideas into real-world cloud and CPU features.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Dr-Ing., Computer Science, Dr-Ing., Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden
German, English
Github Skills (26)
revit-api10
recipe9
django8
tso8
tinker6
asdf5
symlink4
cookbook4
unix4
linux4
buffer4
emacs4
firefox3
organizer3
rust3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
martinp26/motix
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
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