Sid Kumar
Systems Engineer III at Tower Research Capital
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSid Kumar is a systems engineer with seven years of experience building and maintaining Linux kernel subsystems, most recently focused on core kernel memory management at Oracle before moving to a systems role at Tower Research Capital. A UIUC alum (class of '21), he brings deep low-level expertise in performance-sensitive, production-grade code and upstream Linux collaboration. His background blends academic research and hands-on internships in industry, giving him a knack for turning experimental ideas into robust kernel patches. Based in New York, he thrives where operating systems, performance, and reliability intersect, often working on subtle memory and concurrency issues that rarely make it into higher-level tooling. Colleagues cite his ability to navigate complex codebases and upstream processes, making him effective at shipping long-lived, maintainable fixes.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (20)
linux10
linux-kernel10
userspace8
kernel8
64-bit8
zen8
key-value-store8
transactional8
foundationdb8
acid7
arm6
distributed-database6
oracle5
memory-management5
git4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sidkumar99/adaptivemm
Mar 2025 - May 2025
adaptivemm - A userspace daemon for proactive free memory management
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 2 months
sidkumar99/linux
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Linux kernel source tree fork
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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