Yevgeny Petrilin
Senior Director, Software at NVIDIA
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYevgeny Petrilin is a senior software leader with 13+ years building and scaling high-performance networking and RDMA software teams, currently leading software at NVIDIA's Austin site. He combines executive management—recruiting, coaching, and delivering complex OEM-facing products—with deep hands-on expertise as a Linux kernel developer of network device drivers, Ethernet, InfiniBand, SoC integration, and virtualization. At Mellanox he grew an Austin R&D site and owned Linux development for NIC products, bridging hardware and software roadmaps to ship production-grade drivers and system integration. Known for hiring and developing managers from scratch, he balances strategic direction with low-level debugging and kernel contribution. Based in Austin and educated at Technion in Computer Science, he brings a rare blend of operational leadership and kernel-level technical depth that accelerates hardware-software co-design.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew, Russian
Github Skills (10)
busybox6
linux-kernel6
moto5
kernel5
linux4
rebase4
caf3
nlp2
python2
rust1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
roidayan/linux
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:41 commits in 1 month
kernelkernel-sourcelinuxlinux-kernelbusybox
crevanthsvt/kernel_xiaomi_sakura
Jun 2013 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 commits in 3 years
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