Valentine Sinitsyn
Head Of Virtualization & Hardware Acceleration Technologies
Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolValentine Sinitsyn is a seasoned systems engineer and technology leader with over 15 years of experience building low-level Linux and cloud infrastructure, currently heading Virtualization & Hardware Acceleration Technologies at Yandex.Cloud. He combines deep kernel, QEMU/KVM and driver expertise with product and team leadership, having led teams of up to 25 engineers to deliver virtualization, GPU and network acceleration stacks. His hands-on background includes significant open-source contributions to the Jailhouse partitioning hypervisor—implementing AMD-V memory management and nested page-fault handling—which underscores a strong focus on hardware-aware virtualization. A former associate professor with a PhD in theoretical physics, he brings rigorous analytical thinking and a history of research-driven problem solving to production systems. Based in Yekaterinburg, he’s known for bridging research, low-level engineering and product strategy to push cloud performance and reliability.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D., Theoretical Physics, Mathematics, Ph. D., Theoretical Physics, Mathematics at Ural State University named after A.M.Gorky
Russian, English
Github Skills (9)
c1710
memory-management10
hypervisor10
assembly10
c1110
virtualization10
x8610
kernel-mode9
kernel9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
siemens/jailhouse
May 2014 - Nov 2015
Linux-based partitioning hypervisor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Valentine primarily contributed to the Jailhouse hypervisor's x86 architecture support. They made significant changes to memory management, specifically implementing AMD-V memory management functions, including memory mapping, unmapping, and guest physical to host physical address translation. Their work also included the implementation of various features like MSR access, port-based I/O, and handling nested page faults, thereby improving the system's compatibility and functionality. These contributions focused on enhancing the hypervisor's ability to manage and virtualize hardware resources for guest operating systems.
linuxpartitioninghypervisorvirtualizationreal-time
vsinitsyn/jailhouse
May 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:421 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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