Tom Musta
Pathfinding For Exascale
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTom Musta is a seasoned systems software engineer with 11+ years focused on low-level OS, firmware, and HPC platform work, currently designing and prototyping operating system technology for exascale systems at Intel. He previously drove boot, interrupt, RAS and communications bringup for multiple generations of IBM Blue Gene supercomputers and modernized PowerPC support in QEMU, upstreaming significant emulator and KVM enhancements. Tom blends deep applied mathematics training with hands-on firmware and kernel development, shipping production deployments of world-leading supercomputers and collaborating closely with vendors and national labs. Known for tackling hard systems problems—from processor verification and virtualization to runtime componentization—he combines long-term architectural thinking with prolific, practical engineering. An often-unsung strength is his track record of getting complex low-level patches accepted upstream and into mainstream releases, ensuring broad impact beyond any single project.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics at Gustavus Adolphus CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.), Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.), Applied Mathematics at University of Colorado Boulder
Spanish
Github Skills (3)
fortran5
mpi3
hpc3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
intel/mOS
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:70 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
tommusta/dai_ds_scripting
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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