In July 2020, I started working on the build service I've wanted for 16
years: no change to your workflow, cooperates with existing build systems,
handles multi-stage builds, works with any language, and the first version
will support offloading builds to fast cloud systems to compile 12-120x
faster than a developer laptop. My goal is to make waiting on a build as
antiquated as the sound of a dial-up modem.
I'm a developer on the Rust project, working on the language, standard
library, and Cargo package manager. I care about building welcoming,
inclusive communities that lift people up. I love building solutions to
systemic problems.
I'm seeking
sponsorship to
continue working on Rust and build systems full-time.
Barriers to in-tree Rust. Linux Plumbers Conference, August 2020. With John Baublitz, Nick Desaulniers, Alex Gaynor, Geoffrey Thomas, and Miguel Ojeda. Reported on LWN.
The read-copy-update mechanism for supporting real-time applications on shared-memory multiprocessor systems with Linux. IBM Systems Journal, 47(2), April 2008. With Dinakar Guniguntala, Paul E. McKenney, and Jonathan Walpole.
Past Projects
I co-maintained the
X C Binding (XCB) and the Xlib
library. I developed the XML-XCB format to describe the X Window System
protocol. I also worked on other Xorg projects at
freedesktop.org.
I worked on the office suite now known as
LibreOffice. Long ago, my first
major Open Source contribution was to remove the need for Java in its build
system, back when Java was still proprietary.
I ported Python and ACPICA to GRUB2, to provide an interactive firmware
exploration/test environment, including a Python network stack for UEFI, and
the ability to call UEFI functions from Python using libffi and ctypes.
I've done some work on the
Linux kernel. I originated the Linux
"tinification" effort to reduce the size of the kernel.
I previously worked for Intel as a Principal Engineer. I was Intel's
lead software architect for Chrome OS.
Before that, I worked on Real-Time Linux and RCU, for IBM.
I co-developed the first resource monitoring support for the Xen
hypervisor, as well as the xentop (AKA xm top)
tool built atop it.