Andreas Marcou
Co-President at The Marlowe Dramatic Society
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndreas Marcou is a Cambridge-educated organizer and technologist with 11 years of leadership and practical experience spanning student governance, festival curation, and hands-on software contributions. As Co-President of The Marlowe Dramatic Society and former JCR Entertainments Officer he has run large-scale events, managed budgets, and boosted engagement through creative content strategies. He has significant open-source backend experience contributing to the high-profile SPDK project—improving spdk_top observability and stabilizing NVMe over VFIO-user interfaces—demonstrating low-level systems understanding beyond his social sciences degree. His background also includes international arts and festival work, jury service for film competitions, and a summer internship at a national contemporary art museum, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary bent. A former infantry soldier who completed national service in Cyprus, he combines discipline and operational experience with creative leadership. He brings a rare mix of technical contribution to production-grade storage tooling and proven event-driven leadership in cultural institutions.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Human, Social, and Political Sciences, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Human, Social, and Political Sciences at University of CambridgeAchieved 4 A*s at A Level and a 20/20 in the Cypriot Apolytirion., Achieved 4 A*s at A Level and a 20/20 in the Cypriot Apolytirion. at The English School, Nicosia
English, Greek, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
c1710
linux10
c1110
nvme10
system-programming9
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
spdk/spdk
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
Storage Performance Development Kit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 comments, 11 issues in 7 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the SPDK project by implementing and fixing features related to the `spdk_top` utility and the NVMe over VFIO-user interface. Their work includes adding functionality to display poller busy counts and fixing sorting issues within the `spdk_top` tool. They also addressed race conditions and logical errors in the NVMe VFIO-user implementation, enhancing its stability and adherence to specifications. Furthermore, the user added features to disable signal handlers for spdk_app_start(), enabling improved customization and support for more complex workflows.
development-kitvagrantperformancestoragevirtualbox
KimJongSkill/Brainfuck-Interpreter
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:4 releases, 12 PRs, 129 pushes in 2 months
brainfuck-interpreterprogramming-languageinterpreterbrainfuck
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