Summary

Experience

• Linux Kernel Contributor (Mentorship) Sep 2025–Present
  Linux Foundation (LFX)

  • Contributed 8 accepted patches to the mainline Linux kernel in C, including fixes for CVE-2025-40304 and CVE-2025-40190 (both CVSS 7.0 – Important), improving filesystem integrity and system stability.

  • Performed structured root-cause analysis using logs, stack traces, and crash dumps to resolve kernel-level defects.

  • Collaborated with maintainers through multiple review cycles and documented findings for validation and long-term technical reference.

• Open-Source Software Contributor Ongoing
  Independent

  • Contributed production-ready patches across widely used open-source projects, improving correctness, stability, and user experience.

  • Microsoft Terminal: Improved text selection behavior for wrapped lines, enhancing usability for millions of users.

  • uutils/coreutils: Fixed symlink handling compatibility issues, enabling reliable package management on musl-based systems.

  • LensKit: Implemented Mean Average Precision (MAP) metric to support recommendation algorithm evaluation for researchers.

  • Matplotlib: Enhanced input validation to prevent silent failures in scientific plotting and surface actionable error messages.

• Artificial Intelligence Intern May–Aug 2024
  Kinectrics, Toronto, ON

  • Developed Python-based data and processing pipelines in a Linux (Ubuntu) environment to support model training and evaluation workflows.

  • Automated experiments and environment setup using Docker and GitHub Actions to improve reproducibility.

  • Diagnosed runtime, dependency, and data-quality issues through structured logging and debugging.

• Developer Intern Jan–Jul 2023
  Fleming, Remote

  • Implemented Python-based backend features for a web application, contributing to API logic and data handling.

  • Developed and maintained REST-style endpoints integrated with a PostgreSQL database.

  • Improved application stability by fixing bugs and adding basic automated tests.

Projects

• Low-Level Systems Programming Ongoing
  C, POSIX, Linux

  • Implemented a custom memory allocator, exploring heap management, fragmentation, and allocation strategies.

  • Built Unix utilities using POSIX system calls, pipes, and redirection, gaining hands-on experience with kernel–user space interfaces.

• Cloud-Deployed Backend (TiffinBox) 2025
  Go, AWS, Docker, Nginx

  • Deployed and operated a backend service in a production-like AWS environment with logging, health checks, and reverse proxying via Nginx.

  • Gained hands-on experience with containerization, service monitoring, and operational troubleshooting.

Skills

Programming Languages	C, Python (scripting/automation), Bash, Go
Systems Level Experience	Linux kernel development/debugging, CPU/memory subsystems, low-level system calls
Tools & Development	Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions, Docker, VSCode, Jira, Linux environment
Automation & DevOps	Ansible/Terraform, CI/CD pipelines
Networking & Containers	Nginx, HTTP/S, Docker, firewall concepts
Cloud	AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS, S3)

Education