Amit Singh: Résumé

Amit Singh
Contact Information
http://kernelthread.com
http://osxbook.com

Profile

I believe in creativity, innovation, and the art of computer programming. Areas that I usually work in include operating systems (both server and desktop specializations), networking, embedded systems, and software frameworks. I am interested in both creation and marketing of technology.

Experience

Manager of Macintosh Engineering
5/2006—currentGoogle, Mountain View, California
Doing things that Google does MacFUSE
Researcher
7/2003—5/2006IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California
Software "DRM" "Unspoofable" secure communication in insecure environments Autonomic security of managed networked systems Simulation of "interesting" hypothetical disk drives Database + Data Mining + File System + Linux Kernel Trusted Computing Linux on the Desktop Linux Desktop Challenge Contest One-click migration between operating systems Linux off (not on) the Apple iPod
Architect, Manager, Technical Leader
10/1999—7/2003Ensim Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
Played roles of an Architect, a Manager, and a Technical Leader Initiated and led large software engineering projects Designed and implemented Operating System kernel extensions and components (Solaris and Linux) for breakthrough virtualization technology Designed and implemented scalable and distributed web service delivery platforms and web service offerings Designed and implemented various software licensing and security schemes Extended Perl and Python to seamlessly support signed/encrypted scripts and modules
Member of Technical Staff
10/1998—10/1999Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Designed and implemented new techniques for Quality of Service in Operating Systems and Computer Networking Designed and implemented QoS versions of protocols like NFS, FTP, and HTTP to provide Quality of Service through hierarchical fair share schedulers for CPU, network bandwidth, and disk I/O Extended network protocol stacks (such as the TCP/IP stack on FreeBSD) for Quality of Service
Software Consultant
6/1998—10/1998IIT, New Delhi
Designed the architecture and inter-networking of various computer science laboratories in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Integrated computer systems from Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Intel Corporation, Cisco Systems, and Hewlett-Packard
Systems Manager
8/1996—6/1998IIT, New Delhi
Managed and maintained a state of the art computing laboratory Ensured smooth working of over 40 heterogeneous software and hardware systems
Columnist
9/1997—9/1998PC World Magazine, New Delhi
Wrote articles on computing technologies for PC World Technical consultant
Columnist
5/1997—9/1997PC Quest Magazine, New Delhi
Wrote articles on computing technologies for PC Quest Technical consultant

Book

Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach (ISBN 0321278542), Addison-Wesley Professional, June 2006

Publications

A list of my publications

Notable Projects

Examples of publicly available software I have created for Mac OS X
An old list of my professional projects (very out-of-date as of 2003)

Software Environments

A list of operating systems and programming languages I have various levels of experience with

Patents Filed/Received

Creating an Assured Execution Environment for At Least One Computer Program Executable on a Computer System
Manipulating the Original Content of At Least One Original Read-Only File in a Computer System
Virtualizing Port Addresses for Non-conflicting Use by Multiple Virtual Processes
Signaled Receiver Processing
Methods and Apparatus for Providing Quality of Service for Legacy Applications

Awards/Rewards

Received the Grand Prize at the Hewlett-Packard National (United States and Canada) Information Systems Professionals Appreciation Day, New York City, 1999
Received a reward check from Professor Donald Knuth

Selected Lectures/Talks

MacFUSE, May 2007, Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series, Mountain View
Taming Mac OS X File Systems, January 2007, Macworld, San Francisco
Software Protection and the TPM—The Mac OS X Story, December 2006, Berlin, Germany
A Journey to the Center of Mac OS X, August 2006, Apple Store, San Francisco
Mac OS X Internals, July 2006, Apple Campus, Cupertino
Operating System Design Techniques, May 2006, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Mac OS X Internals: The Book, February 2006, Google Inc.
The Mac OS X Kernel, May 2005, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland
Mac OS X, April 2004, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Innovation for Fun and Profit, April 2004, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Virtualized Operating Systems, November 2002, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
*nix Mischiefs: The New Frontiers, January 2000, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Laudit: Playing with System Calls on Linux, O'Reilly Open Source Conference 1999, Monterey, California

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi

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The Book — Extras

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