Thomas Falcon
Linux OS Development Engineer at Intel Corporation
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Falcon is a Linux OS development engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in network device drivers and Power architecture support, currently maintaining and debugging IBM network drivers in the Linux kernel at Intel. He has deep expertise in virtual NICs and Virtual Ethernet on PowerVM, contributed upstream patches to the LKML, and implemented performance features like netdev_xmit_more to unlock 100Gb NIC throughput. His background includes OpenShift networking on Power, SR-IOV operator automation, and running local bare-metal test labs—skills that blend low-level C kernel work with practical systems automation in bash and Python. Based in Austin, he pairs production-grade kernel maintenance with testbed administration and documentation, making him effective at moving complex platform networking changes from patch to release.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Jesuit High SchoolBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
English
Github Skills (38)
distro10
upstream10
manjaro10
linux9
vms9
openshift9
documentation8
musl8
raspberry8
power-systems8
zen8
commons8
btrfs7
linux-kernel7
kernel7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jallen93/linux-vnic-dbg
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:53 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
tlfalcon/perfmon
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
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