Bill Burns

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT BILL BURNS

Engineering management - Currently driving the Operate First Initiative, which is about bringing projects to a production cloud during development so that operational considerations become part of the development cycle. Previous role was to build and manage a distributed team of engineers working on Telecommunications evolution with Network Function Virtualization / Containerization with various Telco\'s, Network Equipment Providers and ISVs. Earlier on managed engineering teams doing performance engineering and virtualization development. My roles included planning, hiring, compensation allocation, setting work direction, and enabling engineer leadership via self direction and motivation. Engineering - Engineering work on the Xen Hypervisor and Linux specific Xen kernel. System level Linux/Unix programming primarily in conjunction with porting UNIX/Linux to new hardware platforms. Hardware virtualization experience at Egenera using Linux as well software virtualization using Xen. Experience with maintenance functions like crash dump, system robustness, install & upgrade are other areas. Implemented distributed metadata for a distributed file system. Development of GigE VLAN and ARP cache manager for a switch router using VxWorks. Email: b••••••••@gmail.com Specialties: People manager Languages: C, Assembler (x86, Alpha, Mips, pdp-11), shell programming. Some python, perl. Os: Linux (plus Xen), OSF Unix, BSD Unix, Solaris, VxWorks. Kernel areas: hardware support, crash dump, exception handling, file systems, drivers.