Developer Engineer

Nelson Elhage

Cambridge, MA

781-***-****

*******@*******.***

Blog: http://blog.nelhage.com/

Github: http://github.com/nelhage/

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2009

GPA 4.9/5.0

Roxbury Latin School, West Roxbury, MA

2001-2005, Graduated Summa Cum Laude June 2005 with a 4.0 GPA

Work experience

Oracle, Cambridge MA August 2011-present Architect

Ksplice, Cambridge MA June 2009-July 2011 Employee #1, Principal Engineer

(Ksplice was acquired by Oracle in July 2011)

Core developer on technology for creating and applying rebootless updates to the Linux kernel.

Developed and maintained automated build and test infrastructure for thousands of kernel versions.

Developed and maintained services to distribute updates and monitor customer deployments.

VMware, Palo Alto, CA Summer 2008 Member of Technical Sta, Intern

Extended support for VMware s next-generation virtual machine communication infrastructure.

Best Practical Solutions, Somerville, MA Summer 2006 Software Developer (Intern)

Developer for Hiveminder (http://hiveminder.com) and Jifty, a Perl web application framework.

Other Experience

Other projects

Developed http://livegrep.com, providing real-time interactive regular expression search over

>450MB of source code.

Developed Virtunoid, a proof-of-concept guest host privilege escalation exploit against KVM.

Presented at Black Hat USA and Black Hat UAE 2011. (http://github.com/nelhage/virtunoid)

bemu, a JIT compiler implementing the Beta CPU, a ctional CPU used by several MIT courses.

(http://github.com/nelhage/bemu)

Developer and former lead maintainer of Barnowl IM client (http://barnowl.mit.edu)

Relevant coursework

Teaching Assistant, 6.828 Operating Systems Engineering, Fall 2007

6.035 Computer Language Engineering Fall 2007

Implemented an optimizing and data-parallelizing compiler for a C-like language.

6.828 Operating Systems Engineering Fall 2006

Implemented a minimal unix-style OS kernel and userspace

Skills

Pro cient in C, Python, Javascript, C++

Comfortable with Perl, HTML, CSS, Lisp/Scheme, Java, SQL, Haskell

Comfortable with basic UNIX system administration.

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