Michael Zeller
Software Engineer at Oxide Computer Company
California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Zeller is a systems-focused software engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating low-level, cloud and edge infrastructure from Joyent to Fastly and now Oxide Computer Company. He blends kernel- and virtualization-level C development (notably contributions to the illumos bhyve virtualization stack and SmartOS) with DevOps and production reliability work, and has hands-on experience diagnosing systems with tools like DTrace. Based in California, he has moved between customer-facing solution engineering and deep backend engineering roles, giving him a pragmatic perspective on deployability and observability. Colleagues find he quietly surfaces subtle platform bugs—such as USB serial and CPU vmexit probes—and turns those fixes into stable upstream contributions.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Networking and Systems Administration, BS Applied Networking and Systems Administration at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
system-administration10
nodejs10
il10
unix10
c1110
vms10
operating-system10
networking9
virtualization9
linux8
testing8
docker6
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
TritonDataCenter/smartos-live
Apr 2018 - Sep 2021
For more information, please see http://smartos.org/ For any questions that aren't answered there, please join the SmartOS discussion list: https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the SmartOS project by implementing and testing core system functionalities. They worked on validating and integrating new features, specifically related to network configuration and property table validation. They also addressed bugs and improved the reliability of the system by modifying the code. The user also worked on dockerinit to allow starting of lx_lockd and vminfod client.
smartos
illumos/illumos-gate
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
An open-source Unix operating system -- this is a read-only mirror of the official repository at https://code.illumos.org/plugins/gitiles/illumos-gate
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the illumos-gate project by addressing a bug related to a USB serial device and by synchronizing the bhyve component with upstream updates. Their work involved modifying C code files and integrating changes from the upstream bhyve repository. Furthermore, the user updated code related to bhyve's dual license and incorporated a probe for SVM vmexit in AMD processors, demonstrating involvement in virtualization and system-level programming aspects of the project.
operating-systemunixillumosos
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