Anastassios Nanos
Research Scientist at Nubificus
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAnastassios Nanos is a research scientist and systems-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience building and integrating cloud-native runtime and virtualization technologies. Based in the UK, he combines back-end and DevOps skills to improve microVM-based container runtimes, notably contributing bug fixes and runtime features to the high-profile Kata Containers project around Firecracker integration, mount propagation, and resource configuration. His work emphasizes pragmatic system integration—handling edge cases like missing shared filesystems and aligning VM config with deployment needs—bringing reliability to opinionated, security-first runtimes. He blends research curiosity with hands-on production delivery, making him adept at translating low-level systems challenges into maintainable engineering solutions.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
firecracker10
container10
go10
virtualization10
rust8
devops8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
kvm6
occi5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/kata-containers
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 4 commits, 20 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Anastassios primarily contributed to the Kata Containers project by addressing issues related to the Firecracker microVM, the underlying technology used by Kata Containers. They fixed bugs in the `fc.go` file, which manages Firecracker interactions. The user also implemented features to handle file copying when `share_fs` is unavailable and added a parameter for propagation of mount events. Furthermore, they updated the code to utilize configuration values for vCPU and memory. Their work demonstrates a focus on runtime management and system integration within the Kata Containers environment.
firecrackervirtualizationociworkloadvdi
nubificus/vaccel-tutorial-code
Aug 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years
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