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Brini

Brini is a co-founder of Floe. Known for his logical problem-solving ability, patience and stoic personality, he spends his days focused on solving the hardest systems engineering problems. He designed and manufactured his first parallel computer, the BriniBrain, in his teenage years, then earned degrees in physics and astrophysics from Kings College, London. He went on to build software and hardware systems for aircraft target acquisition and tracking, debugged ARM CPUs and their toolchains, built some enterprise software and then contributed to the world’s first enterprise PCIe SSD. In his spare time, Brini enjoys playing with electronics and microcontrollers and completing endless amounts of DIY at home.

  

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# [After 30+ years, "Is Linux disk I/O finally fast enough?" Testing uring against custom NVME userspace drivers.](https://floedb.ai/blog/after-30-years-is-linux-disk-io-finally-fast-enough)

 by[![Brini](https://floedb.ai/hubfs/avatars/brini.png)Brini](https://floedb.ai/blog/author/brini)·Mar 26, 2026 10:20:11 AM

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