Systems & Backend Engineer

I live where performance, correctness, and design collide.
I thrive on low‑level systems work, backend tooling, and solving problems close to the metal.

Impact: Brought Apple allocator support to Windows parity, improving reliability, security compliance, and long‑term maintainability.

• Rewrote the Apple PAL with native BSD & Mach APIs
• Fixed App Store compliance issues
• Enabled proper kernel reclamation by expressing memory usage patterns to XNU
• Investigated decommit semantics & the 4 GiB kernel limit in XNU

Impact: Made the library easier to extend to new data structures while improving flexibility, ergonomics, and safety.

• Rewrote the core architecture with LinkOps & PointerOps traits
• Decoupled collection logic from raw pointers
• Enabled collections to work with Box, Rc, Arc, UnsafeRef, and custom pointer types
• Reduced code bloat & compile times with generic algorithms

Impact: Enabled upstream support for UEFI in Bazel’s platform model, unblocking Rust & C++ firmware/hypervisor projects.

• Added new OS constraint @platforms//os:uefi
• Coordinated with rules_rust and rules_go for toolchain compatibility
• Motivated by work on a type‑1 hypervisor targeting freestanding ELF binaries

• fxevent-zerolog
  Adapter for using zerolog with Uber’s Fx framework.

  • Clean integration between structured logging & dependency injection
  • Includes examples & benchmarks

• cleta (archived)
  Cloud metadata server — an experiment in building a cloud‑init server.

Inspired by Meta’s Tectonic, but focused squarely in Ceph’s niche.

• mithrild — the storage daemon
• mithril library — client/integration library

Roadmap:

• Current focus: rapid development to validate design and cluster behavior
• Planned evolution: transition to a shared‑nothing architecture and integration with advanced I/O frameworks (DPDK, SPDK, io_uring) to maximize efficiency and eliminate runtime overheads

• Website
• GitHub

⭐️ Check out my pinned repos for both original work and major open‑source contributions.