Amit Singh: Résumé

Amit Singh
Contact Information
kernelthread.com
osxbook.com

Work

President & CEO
8/2011—currentosmeta, Mountain View, California
A significant endeavor…
Researcher, Manager
5/2006—8/2011Google, Mountain View, California
Started and bootstrapped the Chrome OS project Managed Google Macintosh Engineering (2006—2009) Established Google Mac Developer Playground Created MacFUSE Worked on search engine crawling infrastructure
Researcher
7/2003—5/2006IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California
Programmed and did research-work on: The first general-purpose use of motion sensors in mainstream computing “Unspoofable” secure communication in insecure environments Autonomic security of managed networked systems Simulation of disk drives with interesting properties Database-backed end-user file system for Linux Trusted Computing One-click migration of total system configuration across operating systems Linux off (not on) the Apple iPod Software Digital Rights Management (and not) Strategy for Desktop Linux
Researcher, Manager
10/1999—7/2003Ensim, Sunnyvale, California
Programmed: Operating system kernel extensions and components (Solaris and Linux) for breakthrough virtualization technology Scalable distributed web service delivery platforms Software-licensing and software-security mechanisms Perl and Python runtime extensions to seamlessly support signed and encrypted code
Member of Technical Staff
10/1998—10/1999Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Programmed: Techniques for Quality of Service (QoS) in operating systems QoS versions of protocols like NFS, FTP, and HTTP to provide QoS through hierarchical fair share schedulers for CPU, network bandwidth, and disk I/O Extensions to network protocol stacks (such as the FreeBSD and Linux TCP/IP stacks) for QoS
Software Consultant
6/1998—10/1998Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Architected 3 laboratories in the Computer Science department Integrated computer systems from Sun, Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco
Columnist
5/1997—9/1998PC World Magazine, PC Quest Magazine
Wrote computing technology columns Provided technical advice
Systems Manager
8/1996—6/1998Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Managed a state of the art computing laboratory Ensured smooth operation of over 40 heterogeneous software and hardware systems

Book

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

Publications

A list of my publications

Patents Issued/Filed

Methods and Apparatus for Providing Quality of Service for Legacy Applications
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

Lectures/Talks

On the Evolution of Personal Computing and Software Systems, January 2012, Dropbox Inc., San Francisco, California
Chrome OS, March 2010, Stanford University, Stanford, California
MacFUSE State of the Union, December 2008, Google Inc., Mountain View, California
Mac OS X Hacking, September 2008, Google Inc., Seattle, Washington
MacFUSE and Mac OS X, December 2007, Apple Inc., Cupertino, California
MacFUSE, May 2007, Google Inc., Mountain View, California
Taming Mac OS X File Systems, January 2007, Macworld, San Francisco, California
Software Protection and the TPM—The Mac OS X Story, December 2006, 23^rd Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Germany
"DRM" in Mac OS X: The True Picture, August 2006, Google Inc., Mountain View, California
A Journey to the Center of Mac OS X, August 2006, Apple Store, San Francisco, California
Mac OS X Internals, July 2006, Apple Inc., Cupertino, California
Operating System Design Techniques, May 2006, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Mac OS X Internals: The Book, February 2006, Google Inc., Mountain View, California
The Mac OS X Kernel, May 2005, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland
Mac OS X, April 2004, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Innovation for Fun and Profit, April 2004, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Virtualized Operating Systems, November 2002, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Unix Mischiefs: The New Frontiers, January 2000, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Laudit: Playing with System Calls on Linux, August 1999, O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Monterey, California

Miscellaneous

Grand Prize, Hewlett-Packard National Information Systems Professionals Appreciation Day, New York City, 1999
Reward check from Donald Knuth, 2002
Slashdottings, 2003—2008
Hobby projects, over the years

kernelthread.com

contents

meta

Work

Book

Publications

Patents Issued/Filed

Lectures/Talks

Miscellaneous