Kamal Heib
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Canada
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Top SchoolKamal Heib is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of deep experience in Linux kernel development, RDMA, and high-performance networking, currently maintaining the RDMA subsystem and related userspace packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. He has progressed from driver verification and Soft-RoCE development to leading kernel and userspace maintenance, contributing upstream to the Linux kernel, rdma-core and qemu projects. Skilled in Bash, Python, Git and networking, he combines low-level systems expertise with practical userspace tooling and packaging for enterprise distributions. Based in Canada, Kamal has a track record of stabilizing complex network drivers and building QEMU device models, and often operates at the intersection of vendor collaboration and upstream open-source integration. An understated strength is his background in verification and test automation, which informs his rigorous approach to kernel reliability and regressions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Tel-Hai CollegeScience, Science at Tuba High School
English, Arabic, Hebrew
Github Skills (42)
infiniband10
rdma10
samsung10
linux10
zen10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
oracle10
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
daemons10
oracle-linux10
userspace10
mellanox9
windows9
wsl29
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
roidayan/linux
Dec 2014 - Jul 2018
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:2086 commits in 3 years 8 months
linux-kernel
Kamalheib/rdma-core
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
RDMA core userspace libraries and daemons
Contributions:224 pushes, 182 branches in 6 years 2 months
daemonsrdmauserspace
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