Toomas Soome
Senior Software Engineer at https://www.freebsd.org
Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolToomas Soome is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of professional experience and a long-standing background in Unix/Solaris systems and storage infrastructure. A FreeBSD src committer and active contributor to the high-profile OpenZFS project, he focuses on backend systems, stability fixes, and performance-minded changes to critical filesystem code. He has driven infrastructure and storage solutions across telecom and enterprise environments, from hands-on HA and backup architectures to system-level tooling like top with ZFS statistics. Currently at Edgecast and previously leading system engineering at Proact Estonia, he blends deep systems programming expertise with practical operational experience. Notably, his work spans both low-level kernel-adjacent development and userland tooling, showing a rare combination of production-grade engineering and long-term open-source stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Tartu Ülikool
English, Russian
Github Skills (16)
c1710
filesystem10
openzfs10
il10
solaris10
c1110
operating-system10
testing9
zfs9
sparc9
bash8
systemd8
system8
ruby8
gcc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenIndiana/oi-userland
Aug 2019 - Oct 2022
Unified build system for OpenIndiana distribution components
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Toomas primarily contributed to the `top` utility within the OpenIndiana userland, introducing and improving ZFS-related statistics and system information display. Their commits involved modifying the `top` utility code, adding features to display compressed ARC statistics, and adapting the code to use termios over termio. They also addressed build issues related to SPARC architecture for various components, including Ruby and GCC.
esxioperating-systemrisk-assessmentredfishillumos
openzfs/zfs
Jun 2016 - Sep 2022
OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / System Architect
Back-end Developer / System ArchitectContributions:15 reviews, 33 commits, 18 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Toomas's contributions primarily involve modifying and testing the OpenZFS codebase. They fixed bugs and addressed potential issues related to various ZFS features, including boot environments, compression, and checksum validation. Their work encompassed changes across multiple files, including core ZFS modules, test scripts, and documentation. The commits indicate a focus on maintaining code quality and ensuring the stability of the ZFS file system, contributing to performance improvements and fixing system typos.
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