Yan Vugenfirer
Senior Principal SW Engineer - Windows Virtualization SST
Netanya, Center District, Israel
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Top SchoolYan Vugenfirer is a seasoned technology executive and senior principal software engineer with over 20 years of deep system-level and virtualization expertise, now leading Windows Virtualization at Red Hat. As founder and long-time CEO of Daynix, he built a consultancy and engineering hub that shaped kernel- and driver-level projects, CI/CD for system software, and modern Agile/AI-assisted development practices. He is the maintainer of the widely used virtio-win project, contributing core paravirtualized Windows drivers and SCSI support for QEMU/KVM. Yan blends hands-on C/C++ kernel and driver development (Linux and Windows) with proven skills in scaling engineering organizations, productizing complex virtualization stacks, and guiding WHQL certification efforts. Known for recruiting from and integrating open source communities into product teams, he often fine-tunes Agile for upstream collaboration—an uncommon combination of manager, maintainer, and low-level engineer. Based in Netanya, Israel, he pairs academic electrical engineering foundations from Technion with a long track record of shipping production virtualization plumbing for industry leaders.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyYad Leibovitch
English, Hebrew, Russian
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Github Skills (13)
windows-driver10
c-language10
driver10
device-driver10
cprogramming-language10
scsi9
debugging6
windows6
virtual-machine6
windows-kernel6
windbg6
testing6
signing6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows
Feb 2010 - Dec 2022
Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU\KVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:474 reviews, 623 commits, 647 PRs in 13 years
Contributions summary:The user, Yan Vugenfirer, contributed to the Windows-based virtio driver for QEMU/KVM, specifically focusing on adding support for virtualized SCSI devices (vioscsi) and related infrastructure for this platform. The contributions included adding a base build procedure, implementation of the required data structures, and creating the foundational functions for handling communication and I/O operations. The work involved adapting the virtio library, adding features such as hotplug support and link status handling, as well as creating control queue messages. The primary technologies involved are C/C++ and the virtio standard for the Windows platform.
hyper-vc-plus-plusvirtualizationvirtio-winguest
daynix/kvm-guest-drivers-windows
Jun 2018 - Sep 2022
Windows paravirtualized
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 68 pushes in 4 years 4 months
vdivmswindowsesxikvm
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