Russ Weight
Staff Kernel Developer at Cruise
Valier, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuss Weight is a seasoned kernel engineer with over three decades of systems and OS experience and a decade focused on Linux kernel development, currently serving as Staff Kernel Developer at Cruise. He brings deep platform expertise from roles at Intel, IBM, and Sequent, where he led kernel and VM work, driver compatibility efforts, and tooling that bridged hardware and software validation. At GM he contributed to Super Cruise® software before retiring and later returned to core kernel work, showing a rare blend of automotive safety systems context and low-level engineering. A pragmatic problem-solver and occasional entrepreneur, he founded a web security startup and built production-grade REST APIs and test automation, reflecting both hands-on C/kernel skills and higher-level system design. Based in rural Montana, Russ combines long-term open systems stewardship with practical experience tuning kernels for binary compatibility and real-world deployment.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer & Electrical Engineering, Bachelors of Science Computer & Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (67)
linux10
linux-kernel10
fpga10
kernel10
backport10
manjaro10
distro9
reserve9
upstream9
zen9
machine-learning8
libc8
acceleration7
caf6
moto5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OPAE/linux-dfl-feature-id
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
DFL Feature ID Registry - use a pull request to reserve a feature ID for a new FPGA DFL feature device
Contributions:9 reviews, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
reservepull-requestfpgarequest
OFS/linux-dfl-backport
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Backport version of the linux-dfl (Device Feature List) kernel driver for FPGA devices. This is an out-of-tree driver, designed to be built, packaged, and installed as a stand-alone set of driver modules.
Contributions:24 reviews, 351 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 9 months
kernelbackportstand-alonekernel-driverstand
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