Amit Levy
Executive Director at Tock Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAmit Levy is an executive leader, researcher, and seasoned founder with 17 years of experience designing secure, extensible distributed systems and running cloud services. He balances academic rigor as an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton with real-world product and operational experience as CEO and co-founder of MemCachier, a memcache-as-a-service provider. His work focuses on making powerful systems usable and safe for everyone—driven by a conviction that privilege in tooling shouldn’t determine who can build—and he brings that philosophy to nonprofit leadership as Executive Director of the Tock Foundation. Trained at Stanford and the University of Washington, Amit blends deep systems research, startup execution, and large-scale service engineering, and is known for an engineer’s practicality tempered by a traveler’s curiosity (he once saw the Duomo in Milan at 2am).
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of WashingtonPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (200)
authentication10
arm10
embedded10
haskell10
operating-system10
rust-language10
garbage-collection10
rust-lang10
bare-metal10
client-library10
union10
linux10
cortex-m10
hackage10
x86-6410
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
alevy/jsss
Jul 2011 - Aug 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 2 years 1 month
memcachier/memcachier-tls-buildpack
Mar 2014 - Oct 2020
MemCachier TLS Buildpack
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 years 8 months
memcachiertlsbuildpack
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