Stefano Stabellini
Fellow at The Linux Foundation
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolStefano Stabellini is a seasoned system software architect and Fellow at AMD with over a decade of experience driving hypervisor and virtualization innovation, particularly on ARM. Creator and long-time maintainer of Xen on ARM, he led upstream efforts that brought hardware virtualization support to ARM and cut Xen boot times by over 90% with Dom0less. He serves as a Linux kernel maintainer for the Xen subsystem, co-chairs the RISC-V Hypervisors SIG, and routinely collaborates with vendors and C‑level stakeholders to meet stringent safety and hardware defect challenges. Stefano combines deep low-level expertise in hypervisors, kernel design and hardware/software interfaces with a proven track record of building cross-company open source communities. He regularly evangelizes at conferences (50+ talks) and advises startups, translating research-grade ideas into production-ready, standards-aligned architectures. Based in San Jose, he blends hands-on development and gatekeeping stewardship to influence the future of virtualization across ARM, RISC‑V and cloud ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Science, 100/100, High School Diploma, Science, 100/100 at Liceo Scientifico A. Roiti, FerraraEffective MISRA C course, Effective MISRA C course at BugSengBachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 Summa Cum Laude at Università degli Studi di Ferrara
English, Italian
Github Skills (121)
security10
eve10
vms10
bluetooth10
operating-system10
networking10
xen10
pods9
virtualization9
rkt9
embedded9
seccomp9
docker9
chroot9
oneplus9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lf-edge/runx
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 64 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years
Xilinx/imagebuilder
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 5 months
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