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Michael Tsirkin

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Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
📍 Tamra, North District, Israel

Michael Tsirkin is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, specializing in the Linux kernel, virtualization, and networking. He chairs the Virtio Technical committee and is a key maintainer for Virtio and Vhost in Linux and QEMU. Michael holds both a B. A. and an M. Sc. from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Outside of his deep technical work, Michael is a science fiction reader and a martial arts practitioner. His passion for technology stems from a fundamental interest in low-level systems programming, protocol design, and open-source software.

He is one of the worlds most prolific inventors, having authored over 300 granted US patents.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Distinguished Engineer
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Tamra, North District, Israel
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Linux Kernel Development
A maintainer for multiple subsystems within the Linux kernel and QEMU projects, with a long history of contributions.
Virtualization & Virtio
Serves as the Chair of the Virtio Technical committee and is the editor of the Virtio specification, leading its development.
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Career

Work history

7-2019
Distinguished Engineer
Red Hat
7-2018 - 7-2019
Consulting Engineer
Red Hat
4-2009 - 7-2018
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat
3-2009
Senior Software Engineer
Google
Staff Engineer
Mellanox Technologies
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Michael S. Tsirkin - Red Hat. Featured in Red Hat
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US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Oct. 7 for “Efficient network device failover management for virtual machines”. Featured in HT Syndication (US Fed News)
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Education
1998 - 2003
M.Sc
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
1992 - 1997
B.A
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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