Ted Tso
Sr. Staff Engineer at Google
Winchester, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTed Tso is a veteran Sr. Staff Engineer with 39 years of systems and kernel engineering experience, currently leading filesystem and infrastructure work at Google. He is the long-time maintainer and architect behind ext2/3/4 and e2fsprogs, authored Linux’s /dev/random and tty/serial stacks, and has driven real-time Linux enhancements for defense-grade deployments. A standards and security leader, he helped shape Kerberos V5 at MIT, chaired the IETF IPsec working group, and continues to influence the Linux Standards Base and IETF security efforts. Ted organizes the annual Linux Kernel Summit that convenes the top kernel developers worldwide and serves on several boards including Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation. His GitHub contributions show deep, low-level fixes and performance work across ext4, util-linux blkid, and krb5 mirroring his production-first focus. Known for blending rigorous protocol and standards work with pragmatic kernel maintenance, he delivers reliability at internet scale.
39 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMIT Sloan School of Management
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (24)
filesystem10
ext410
system-programming10
kerberos10
routers10
memory-management10
router10
linux10
c1110
linux-kernel10
data-structure10
c1710
kernel10
gssapi10
kernel-mode10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Mar 2006 - Jun 2011
Digispeaker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:379 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ted primarily contributed to the ext4 filesystem's core functionality, focusing on performance improvements and bug fixes. Their work involved optimizing the block allocation process, addressing issues with delayed allocation, and correcting errors in the inode structure and transaction handling. They also implemented new features, such as the logging of write statistics, by incorporating code to improve the ext4 filesystem's reliability and performance.
HyperTeam/android_kernel_hyper_msm8916
Sep 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:100 commits in 3 years 7 months
kernellenovolinuxtelegramlinux-kernel
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