Shakeel Butt
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShakeel Butt is a software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in Linux kernel development, memory management, high-performance networking, and ML infrastructure. He has driven low-level performance work at Google and now contributes to kernel projects at Meta, bringing deep expertise in optimizing OS subsystems for scale. Earlier roles at NVIDIA and research positions produced production-grade systems like a re-architected GRID streaming client with USB passthrough and Xen/Qemu integration, reflecting a knack for bridging research and product engineering. His background includes cloud security and VM migration research at AT&T Labs and a PhD from Rutgers, underscoring a strong foundation in systems research applied to real-world performance problems. Known for solving subtle performance and memory challenges, he combines academic rigor with hands-on implementation in large, distributed codebases.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (11)
c1710
memory-management10
c1110
linux-kernel10
performance-optimization10
cgroups10
system-programming9
debug8
tracelogging8
debugging8
trace8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
shakeelb/linux
Nov 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 years 1 month
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
shakeelb/redis
Apr 2023 - Jul 2024
Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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