Oleg Drokin
Principal Software Development Engineer at DDN Storage
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOleg Drokin is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 26 years of systems programming experience and over 20 years focused on C, Linux kernel development, and HPC storage, specializing in the Lustre filesystem. He has driven scalability, performance and recovery improvements across industry leaders including DDN, Intel, Sun/Oracle and Cluster File Systems, and served as gatekeeper and security reviewer for Lustre community branches. Notably, his work boosted typical Lustre I/O bandwidth by fourfold in production studies at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, reflecting a rare blend of deep kernel expertise and measurable system-level impact. Based in Knoxville, Tennessee, he combines hands-on engineering of distributed lock managers and client/server stacks with security stewardship and long-term open-source project leadership.
26 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics at Simferopol State University
Russian
Github Skills (101)
python10
hpc-cluster10
backup10
compression10
encryption10
authenticated-encryption10
ssh10
linux-kernel10
nook10
moto10
kernel10
deduplication10
filesystem10
linux9
qubes-os9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CyanogenMod/android_kernel_bn_omap
Dec 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:75 commits in 2 years 2 months
verygreen/linux
Mar 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:76 commits, 56 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 3 months
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