Sam Mendoza-jonas
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Australia
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Top SchoolSam Mendoza-jonas is a senior system software engineer with six years of focused experience in Linux kernel, firmware, and low-level systems, currently applying that expertise at NVIDIA after key kernel development roles at AWS. At AWS he helped develop and maintain the kernel that powers Amazon Linux, bridging upstream kernel work with cloud-scale operational needs. His open-source contributions include practical Bottlerocket OS patches and build-system improvements that reflect a strong operational mindset—improving agents, update handling, and metadata processing for container host environments. Trained in mechatronics at the Australian National University and based in Australia, he combines hardware-aware thinking with production software rigor. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who makes kernel-level complexity manageable for large-scale cloud infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering / Bachelor of IT, Mechatronics, Bachelor of Engineering / Bachelor of IT, Mechatronics at Australian National University
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Github Skills (13)
linux10
container10
rust10
operating-system10
devops9
build-system9
shell8
api8
script8
sh8
apim8
scripting8
api-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 108 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sam's commits primarily involve building and configuring the SSM agent, including necessary patches and service files. They also worked on allowing root users and specifying absolute paths for shell sessions within the Bottlerocket OS. Furthermore, they contributed to the build system, adding a random seed generator. The user also implemented changes to update handling and metadata processing, demonstrating a good understanding of operational aspects.
containershostingoperating-systemrustlinux
amazonlinux/linux
Sep 2019 - Mar 2023
Linux kernel stable tree mirror
Contributions:232 commits, 1126 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 6 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxlinux-distribution
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