Ryan Savino
Software System Design Engineer at AMD
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Savino is a software system design engineer with 15+ years of experience specializing in confidential computing, platform hardware security, and virtualization. Based in Austin, he has led cross-industry efforts at AMD and Intel to integrate EPYC SEV‑SNP, SGX optimizations, and TPM-based attestation into cloud-native stacks, while serving as a maintainer and core contributor to the widely used Kata Containers project. He blends hands-on engineering—building CI platforms, PXE provisioning, QEMU/kernel integrations, and SEV enablement tooling—with technical leadership across open-source communities and standards bodies. Notably, he created sev-utils to streamline SEV‑SNP demos and automated host/guest workflows, demonstrating practical threat research such as bare‑metal memory scraping comparisons. Equally comfortable in architecture design and day-to-day code review, Ryan drives adoption of confidential computing by making complex platform security features accessible to developers and operators.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at University of Notre Dame
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Github Skills (15)
automation10
github-ci10
docker10
automations10
automation-testing10
githubaction-workflow10
dockers10
qemu10
virtualization10
kubernetes-pods9
kernel-mode9
kernel9
kubernetes9
security8
rust7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/kata-containers
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:104 reviews, 17 commits, 32 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on infrastructure and build-related tasks, including updates to kernel configurations, QEMU setup, and GitHub Actions workflows. They addressed build issues, particularly with QEMU and kernel builds for specific hardware configurations, and added support for testing QEMU-based hypervisors (SEV, SNP). The user also improved the OS builder by fixing initrd issues and adding support for the Kata agent.
firecrackervirtualizationociworkloadvdi
amd/sev-utils
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
Utilities and tools for AMD SEV memory encryption technologies
Contributions:23 reviews, 11 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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