Tyler Hicks Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managing the MSFT Linux Kernel Team, which provides production quality Linux kernels for 10 different Microsoft products. Publicly announced products include Azure Boost, Azure Linux, Windows Subsystem for Linux, and Windows Subsystem for Android. Duties include planning and prioritizing work across 6-month development cycles, coordinating with 10 product teams, designing process improvements, and assisting team members with difficult technical challenges.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Technical lead for the MSFT Linux Kernel Team. Maintainer for the Azure Boost and the Windows Subsystem for Linux kernel. Ushered the Linux kernel powering Boost from a development stage into production to achieve 200 Gbps network throughput and 10 GBps storage throughput while also reducing latency for Azure VM customers. Performed bring-up on second generation Boost hardware.

London, England, Gb

Focused on kernel security. Backport and test reactive security fixes within Ubuntu's kernel. Coordinate kernel security fixes with cloud providers, CPU manufacturers, hypervisor vendors, and other operating system vendors. Triage and fix kernel related issues reported to the Ubuntu Security Team.

London, England, Gb

Point of contact for technical topics regarding Ubuntu security within IoT, mobile, laptop/desktop, and server environments. Identify gaps in Ubuntu’s security stance, design solutions to address those gaps, and assist in prioritization and assignment of the implementation. Provide security-focused design reviews in support of the architecture team and code reviews during the development process. Unblock Ubuntu Security team members when they run into technical problems. Helped plan and launch the Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) product offering for Ubuntu Advantage customers.Continue to carry out the responsibilities of my previous Security Software Engineer role.

London, England, Gb

Involves a blend of proactive security feature development/integration and reactive security updates to ensure high levels of security for millions of Ubuntu systems. Triage, track, and close security vulnerabilities in Ubuntu’s stable releases. Security updates involve a high attention to detail to ensure that Ubuntu users do not experience regressions as they apply security updates on production systems. In addition to security updates, perform source code audits and contribute code to upstream Linux security projects. Active in the upstream AppArmor, eCryptfs, and contribute to other upstream projects as needed. Developed AppArmor mediation of D-Bus messages in the upstream D-Bus project, which plays a key role for Ubuntu Touch (mobile) and Ubuntu Snappy Core (IoT) application confinement.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Contributed to the security design of IBM cloud products and services on Linux. Major involvement in the data encryption and multitenancy aspects. Produced technical documentation of Linux virtualization security features and hardening. Interfaced with a number of IBM product groups and third-party vendors to meet the cloud security requests of customers.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Focused on Linux security software development - Collaborated within a small team to design and implement a multilevel service provider framework, based upon Common Criteria EAL4 certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, SELinux, KVM, and IBM middleware - Developed core Linux components for a distributed, cross platform regulatory compliance and enforcement program - Assisted in achieving Advanced Server status, with a focus on IKEv2 and IPsec, in Department of Defense IPv6 certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SP2 - Worked with sales teams, customers, and other engineering teams to provide a number of proof-of-concept security solutions for customer demonstrations

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Extreme Blue virtualization management project for the Linux Technology Center