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Joel Fernandes: Bio

I hate writing bios. But conference organizers and publishers sometimes ask, so here are my most recent ones.

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Linux kernel engineer specializing in RCU, schedulers, and GPU drivers. Principal Engineer at NVIDIA.

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Joel Fernandes is a Principal Engineer at NVIDIA working on GPU drivers and the Linux kernel. Previously at Google for 8+ years working on Android kernel and performance. He is a core contributor to the Linux kernel's RCU subsystem, scheduler, and tracing infrastructure. Active participant in Rust for Linux.

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Joel Fernandes is a Principal Engineer at NVIDIA working on GPU drivers and the Linux kernel. Previously at Google for over 8 years, he worked extensively on Android kernel development, performance analysis, and tracing infrastructure.

He is a core contributor to the Linux kernel, with significant work on RCU (Read-Copy-Update), the scheduler, memory ordering primitives, and the tracing subsystem. He is an active participant in the Rust for Linux project and has spoken at major conferences including Linux Plumbers Conference, Kernel Recipes, and OSPM Summit.

Joel holds expertise in formal methods (TLA+, PlusCal, herd7/LKMM) for verifying concurrent algorithms.

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