Sultan Alsawaf
Distinguished Linux Kernel Development Engineer at CIQ
Davis, California, United States
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Top SchoolSultan Alsawaf is a Distinguished Linux Kernel Development Engineer with 13 years of systems and kernel experience, currently at CIQ after senior roles at OSOM, OpenResty, Canonical, and Comma.ai. He specializes in C-level kernel work for Linux and Android, from low-memory killer improvements on Exynos platforms to i915 GPU stable-kernel fixes and embedded device drivers. Sultan blends production-grade stability work with upstream open-source contributions (GitHub handle kerneltoast), demonstrating both deep debugging skills and pragmatic performance tuning. His background includes reverse engineering hardware for autonomous systems and shipping long-term stable kernel updates for Ubuntu, showing an unusual mix of product-focused engineering and upstream stewardship. Based in Davis, California, he’s equally likely to tinker with Android phones as he is to optimize reclaim logic or integrate vmpressure frameworks.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (8)
c1710
kernel10
memory-management10
c1110
linux-kernel10
android10
kernel-mode10
system-programming9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
18796299507/MengT_kernel_lavender
Jul 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:366 commits in 4 years
raghavt20/kernel_sm6150
Oct 2016 - Jan 2022
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Contributions:700 commits in 5 years 3 months
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