Summary
Lucas Real is a seasoned software engineer based in São Paulo with 26 years of experience specializing in storage, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure. He has a strong track record at IBM Research—where he focused on data management for scientific applications and engineered spatial database extensions that delivered up to 3000x performance improvements—and now develops low-level systems at Osdyne. Lucas co-designed LTFS at IBM Almaden, a contribution that earned an industry Emmy for its impact on media workflows, and has deep experience with tape, file systems, memory management, and scientific file formats. As founder of a startup, he built customized Linux-based systems for ARM and x86 embedded platforms, blending hands-on kernel and driver work with network and protocol design. He combines research rigor (MS in Computer Science from USP) with pragmatic engineering close to bare metal, often optimizing at the intersection of hardware and software. Colleagues rely on him for hard systems problems where scalability and storage efficiency are critical.
26 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
bachelor Computer Science, bachelor Computer Science at Unisinos