Nathan Fontenot
SMTS Software Engineer at AMD
Georgetown, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Fontenot is a seasoned systems and virtualization engineer with 14+ years designing, implementing, and leading Linux on Power virtualization and kernel projects. As a team lead in IBM's Linux Technology Center and now an SMTS at AMD, he has driven features like CPU/memory/PCI hotplug, live partition migration, virtual Ethernet/SCSI/Fibre Channel across user-space tools, QEMU, and the Linux kernel. He maintains key open-source packages (powerpc-utils, librtas) and has a strong track record of collaborating with distro partners to bring complex platform functionality into production. A named IBM Austin Master Inventor, Nathan combines deep low-level expertise with a decade of people leadership and a knack for reducing system boot time and improving platform reliability—skills honed since AIX kernel work in the late 1990s.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (38)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-power-utilities/librtas
Oct 2011 - Jul 2016
librtas library for Linux on Power systems
Contributions:34 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
linux
ibm-power-utilities/powerpc-utils
Nov 2011 - Jul 2018
Suite of utilities for Linux on Power systems
Contributions:176 commits, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 6 years 9 months
linux
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