Alexander Merritt
Staff Software Engineer at Edera
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Merritt is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 15 years of deep systems experience spanning operating systems, virtualization, computer architecture, and distributed memory systems. He has driven production and research projects at Intel and security startups, implementing nested virtualization, binary translation for SGX enclaves, and kernel extensions for attack detection across C, C++, and Rust. Comfortable moving between research and product delivery, he’s skilled at root-causing performance interference on multi-core and NUMA platforms and bringing complex stacks up on customer hardware. His PhD in systems from Georgia Tech underpins a track record of solving low-level problems—from hypervisor partitioning in autonomous systems to memory and VM optimizations—while collaborating across global teams. A practical tinkerer as well as a researcher, he often bridges academic ideas and hardened security products.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyPhD Computer Science - Systems, PhD Computer Science - Systems at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, German
Github Skills (39)
rust-lang10
sandbox10
standard-library10
crate10
compiler10
rust10
rust-language10
virtual-machine9
sgx9
compatibility9
allocator9
garbage-collection9
virtualization9
serverless9
multi-process8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexandermerritt/tools
Apr 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:91 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
GTkernel/nibble-lsm
Mar 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:674 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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