Alexander Jung
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Unikraft
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Jung is a co-founder and product leader with 11 years of experience building high-performance virtualisation and unikernel tooling from research to production. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on systems engineering—contributing to the Linux Foundation Unikraft project and shipping CI/CD, lightweight VM utilities, and core OS primitives—with strategic security leadership as CISO and director for bespoke government systems. He brings a rare blend of academic depth (PhD-level work on libOSes and unikernel dev kits) and practical developer tooling experience, including improving Unikraft’s build reliability and documentation for the kraft CLI. Comfortable across low-level networking, testing frameworks and front-end site builds, he excels at turning complex OS primitives into usable developer-facing products. Colleagues rely on him for both deep technical chops and product vision that bridges research, open source, and operational security.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Tonbridge Grammar SchoolInternational School of GenevaInstitut International de Lancy - IILDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Lancaster University
English, French, German, c, Spanish, python, golang, bash script, golang
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
unikraft/unikraft
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock best-in-class performance, security primitives and efficiency savings.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Documentation Engineer
Back-end & Documentation EngineerContributions:13 releases, 210 reviews, 66 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Unikraft project by fixing an issue related to a missing header in the `uktime` library. They also updated the documentation, specifically the user and kraft guides, detailing the use of the new command-line utility `kraft`. These commits demonstrate a focus on both correcting build issues and improving the usability and clarity of the project's documentation for users.
kernelposix-compliantvirtualizationmicroserviceposix
unikraft/app-micropython
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Micropython on Unikraft
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 5 commits in 1 year 1 month
pythonunikraft-applicationunikraftunikernelpython3
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