Russ Knize
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Lab126
Palatine, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRuss Knize is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 14+ years of deep embedded and Linux kernel expertise, currently shaping cloud-facing audio and Bluetooth features for Amazon Echo at Lab126. He specializes in multimedia device drivers, storage and memory subsystems, and cross-platform integration—work that has driven major improvements like native Android SD filesystem drivers, zsmalloc memory page migration, and early production F2FS integration. His career at Motorola included camera/video pipeline innovations for modular hardware and performance optimizations that let smaller-core platforms match larger competitors. Comfortable across RTOS, Linux, and Android stacks, he blends low-level systems design with product-focused feature delivery. Based in Palatine, Illinois, Russ pairs hands-on kernel development with a knack for turning experimental research into production-quality solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleNorthern Illinois University
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Github Skills (77)
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google-pixel8
sourceforge8
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android8
mystic8
xiaomi7
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ashwinr64/android_kernel_motorola_msm8952
Apr 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:23 commits in 2 years 7 months
boulzordev/android_kernel_motorola_msm8952
Apr 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:23 commits in 2 years 7 months
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