Summary
Tobias Stumpf is a Staff Engineer based in Dresden with 10 years of hands-on experience building and hardening systems software for hypervisors and operating systems. At VMware he contributes to core ESX hypervisor R&D, focusing on CPU scheduling, storage, system boot and device management, bringing research-grade rigor from his earlier academic work. His background includes OS reliability research and teaching at TU Dresden and practical virtualization development on PikeOS at SYSGO, giving him both theoretical depth and production-side expertise. Tobias blends low-level kernel engineering with project leadership, and his career path shows a consistent focus on making complex platform internals reliable and performant. An observable through-line is his comfort shifting between research and shipping hardened kernel features in large-scale virtualization products.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering at Hochschule Furtwangen University
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Technische Universität Chemnitz
English, German