Alan Dunn
Kernel Engineer at Apple
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Dunn is a kernel engineer at Apple with 12 years of experience designing secure, high-performance systems across industry and academia. He holds a PhD in computer science from UT Austin where his dissertation explored isolation for private program environments, and his background spans cryptography, TPMs, virtualization and KVM. Before Apple he worked on production security at Google and consulted for startups, bringing a pragmatic focus on mitigating risk without sacrificing usability. His research roots include internships at Microsoft Research and projects with Facebook’s security infrastructure, reflecting a pattern of translating novel security ideas into production-ready solutions. Based in Mountain View, he blends deep systems research with hands-on kernel work for iOS platforms, and maintains an academic research page documenting work that continues to influence his engineering approach.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
2xSB, Physics, Mathematics, 2xSB, Physics, Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMA, Physics, MA, Physics at Duke UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (12)
thrift9
csharp9
actionscript9
network-server8
http8
java8
idl8
apache7
libssh7
dart7
branches5
linux3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
amdunn/ut-thesis
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 17 days
ut-osa/txos
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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