Ryan Goodfellow
Engineer at Oxide Computer Company
California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Goodfellow is an engineer with 12 years of experience operating at the software/hardware interface for networked systems, currently building infrastructure at Oxide Computer Company in California. He combines deep systems knowledge—from kernel and networking work on the illumos OS to virtio and IP stack fixes—with applied research in cyber-physical power systems developed during a long tenure at ISI. His background spans hands-on embedded and distributed data-collection projects at SEL to designing network testbeds and mathematical models for power-control, reflecting a blend of production engineering and research. An active open-source contributor, he has made meaningful low-level improvements to a well-known Unix-derived project (illumos), showing attention to safety, performance, and tooling. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Washington State University, bringing rigorous academic training to practical systems engineering.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Washington State University
Russian
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
unix10
system-programming10
c1110
networking10
operating-system10
filesystem7
arm6
libvirt6
emulation6
mount6
android6
user-data6
qemu6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
illumos/illumos-gate
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the Illumos operating system by addressing several issues and implementing features. Their work included fixing a 64-bit safety issue in the `libdladm` library, ensuring the `cw` tool respected the dmake silent flag, and adding a link-state property to simnet links. Furthermore, they addressed a bug related to deleting IP addresses within the IP networking stack, and increased virtio 9P buffer sizes for better performance.
unixkerneloperating-systemlinuxillumos
oxidecomputer/p4
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
A P4 compiler
Contributions:11 reviews, 245 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year
compilerrustgarbage-collectiongarbage-collector
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