Louis Peens
Senior Software Engineer at Thinkst Applied Research
Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolLouis Peens is a senior software engineer based in Centurion, South Africa, with nine years of professional experience and deep expertise in Linux environments, kernel development, testing, integration and packaging. He has progressed from graduate trainee to technical lead roles at Netronome and Corigine, and now serves as a senior engineer at Thinkst Applied Research, demonstrating a steady trajectory into higher-impact engineering and ownership. Louis is comfortable working close to the metal—contributing to kernel-level work and system integration—while also leading teams and delivery on product-facing projects. He blends rigorous testing and reliability practices with a pragmatic approach to shipping complex systems. Colleagues would note his combination of long-term systems thinking and hands-on problem solving across networking and embedded Linux stacks.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Pretoria
Github Skills (24)
linux10
kernel10
driver10
workingcopy9
zen9
linux-kernel9
network-flow8
oracle8
controller7
openvswitch7
c-library7
firmware6
oracle-linux5
overlayfs4
codemirror3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Netronome/nfp-drv-kmods
Feb 2018 - Dec 2022
Drivers for Netronome Flow Processor devices, including the NFP4xxx and NFP6xxx models.
Contributions:79 commits, 495 pushes, 55 branches in 4 years 10 months
driver
Corigine/nfp-drv-kmods
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Kernel drivers for Network Flow Processor (NFP): support for the NFP3800, NFP4000, NFP5000 and NFP6000 models.
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 commits, 7 PRs in 9 days
driverkernelnetwork-flow
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