Vincent Donnefort
Software Engineer at Google
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Donnefort is a seasoned Linux kernel engineer with 13 years of experience focused on scheduler and power-management work for Arm-based devices, currently at Google after several senior roles at Arm. He has deep hands-on expertise in Energy Aware Scheduling, CFS tuning and CPUFreq, and a track record of improving responsiveness and evaluating vendor scheduler changes. His background spans kernel bring-up, GPU/ION/DRM debugging, board support for NAS products, and build/test tooling (including Python-based LISA improvements). An active open-source contributor, he’s enhanced developer-facing projects like the SuperCollider IDE and extended low-level utilities in AOSP, demonstrating fluency across userland tooling and system-level internals. Based in Cambridge, he pairs systems-level debugging with pragmatic tooling and testing improvements that reduce flakiness and I/O overhead in real-world platforms.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Electronic and Embedded Systems, Engineering, Electronic and Embedded Systems at Polytech'Paris-Sud
German, English, French
Github Skills (29)
virtualisation10
kvm10
filesystem10
file-management10
develop10
c-language10
system-programming10
qt10
ide10
virtual-machine10
c1110
linux-kernel10
c1710
system10
supercollider10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
supercollider/supercollider
Jun 2014 - Apr 2015
An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 5 PRs, 38 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily worked on enhancing the SuperCollider IDE, focusing on features related to code editing. Their contributions include implementing line number visibility, adding a delete word shortcut, and managing themes. They also integrated a restore feature to recover unsaved changes, including a coalescing mechanism to reduce temporary file writes. This work involved modifications to core IDE components, settings management, and the code editor.
electronic-musicmidisynthesisc-plus-plussequencer
aosp-mirror/platform_system_core
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the `mkbootfs` utility, adding and modifying functionality related to dev nodes and file system configuration. Their work involved extending support for creating dev nodes, including their inclusion in the CPIO archive, and providing a mechanism to define these nodes through a configuration file. They also refactored the code to use `getopt_long` for argument parsing and added a help message, improving the utility's usability. The contributions focused on system-level utilities and file system manipulation.
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