Roland Dreier
Principal Embedded Software Engineer at Rivian
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRoland Dreier is a Principal Embedded Software Engineer with 26 years of experience building high-performance networking and Linux-based systems, currently leading embedded software efforts at Rivian after a brief tenure at NVIDIA. He combines deep academic rigor—a PhD in Mathematics from UC Berkeley and a BA from Harvard—with hands-on expertise in embedded Linux, InfiniBand/RDMA, and open source strategy, bringing formal thinking to practical system design. His career spans influential roles at Google Cloud, Pure Storage, Cisco, and startups that were later acquired, giving him a track record of shipping production-grade networking and storage software at scale. Known for bridging low-level kernel and firmware work with product needs, he excels at turning complex distributed systems problems into maintainable implementations. Outside of day-to-day engineering he leverages his math background in areas like algebraic geometry and number theory, informing a distinctive analytical approach to architecture and debugging.
26 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyBA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at Harvard UniversityHigh School, High School at Princeton Day School
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Github Skills (200)
rdma10
pcapng10
beagleboard10
perf10
daemons10
network-tools10
sniffer10
aix10
linux-kernel10
moto10
mechanism10
infiniband10
samsung10
packet10
kernel10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rolandd/rdma-core
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
RDMA core userspace libraries and daemons
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
daemonsuserspacedaemonuserspace-librariesrdma
rolandd/libcxgb3-deb
Apr 2011 - Jun 2012
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 2 months
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