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Boston, Ma, Us

New Hampshire, United States

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Bringing up the new Android XR platform for augmented reality devices, with a focus on systems engineering and microcontrollers.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Worked on building a microkernel-based operating system from the ground up to support AR/VR devices. Led kernel memory management development, supporting unique IPC constructs, user-mode drivers, granular usage tracking/management, and more. Also led development of a hypervisor and virtualization stack integrated into the OS, capable of running Android.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led the Base Kernel Security Core team in the Cloud & AI division. Was responsible for core security infrastructure including virtualization-based security, hypervisor-enforced code integrity, enclaves, DTrace, platform hardening and mitigations, cross-domain communication including RPC, the heap, and the loader. This work was critical for a range of products including Xbox, client PCs, servers, Azure, and more.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Developer in the base kernel team. Primarily focused on virtualization-based security, which provides the basis for many enhancements to the Windows security model such as Device Guard and Credential Guard. Have been deeply involved in a variety of aspects of this technology including hypervisor interaction, boot, and management of memory, processes, threads, and interrupts. Also worked on Windows kernel mitigations for Spectre.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Developer on the Windows Printing team. Worked on various features including Application Isolation, v4 printer driver model, and printing from AppContainer. Primarily responsible for the core spooler, setup, upgrade, isolation, brokering, and bus drivers.

Greensboro, North Carolina, Us

Was involved in J2EE development, SOX audit-related tasks, application support, and server administration. Wrote Perl scripts to automate a variety of tasks, such as auditing and WMI querying. Also created a program for automated file conversion, which was used for several months in a mission-critical production system.