Sourabh Jain
Senior Staff Software Engineer at IBM
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSourabh Jain is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with nine years of experience specializing in low-level Linux kernel development and system architecture. At IBM he has progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Staff, driving complex features and debugging for PowerPC platforms. An active contributor to Linus Torvalds' mainline Linux tree, he focuses on kexec/crash handling, fadump, hugepage scenarios, and memory-management enhancements for the powerpc architecture. His work bridges deep kernel internals and practical production needs, often resolving subtle architecture-specific boot and crash-path issues. Sourabh combines academic grounding from NIT Karnataka with industrial R&D experience (including Google Summer of Code and IBM Extreme Blue), giving him a rare mix of research-minded rigor and deliverable-focused engineering. Colleagues rely on him for high-stakes, low-level problem solving that few engineers take on.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Mahakal Institute of Technology, UjjainMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Github Skills (11)
debugging10
system10
powerpc10
memory-management10
debug10
debugprint10
architectures10
linux-kernel10
architecture10
computer-architecture10
documentation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
torvalds/linux
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Linux kernel source tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:2 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sourabh primarily contributes to the Linux kernel, focusing on the powerpc architecture. Their work involves debugging and resolving issues related to kexec/crash functionality, particularly when dealing with fadump and hugepage configurations. They also make enhancements to memory management within the fadump, including adding functionality for parameter area reservation. The user has extensive experience in low-level kernel development and interacting with system architecture and related documentation.
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
linux-ras/ServiceReport
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
ServiceReport
Contributions:4 reviews, 36 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 11 months
golangsolarislinux
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