Anna Arpaci-dusseau
Faculty Lecturer at Boston University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAnna Arpaci-dusseau is a Faculty Lecturer and software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building systems software, web applications, and security tooling. She combines academic teaching and research at institutions like Boston University and MIT with practical engineering—contributing backend and full-stack code to the widely used OSTEP operating-systems examples and homework projects that demonstrate threading, process scheduling, and command-line utilities. Her work spans high-performance graph mining in C++/OpenMP, cloud security automation in Go/Open Policy Agent, and full-stack dashboards using React and Python, reflecting comfort from low-level concurrency to cloud-native tooling. She has led course instruction and lab design as a Head TA for computer security and routinely translates complex systems concepts into teachable code and assignments. Notably, she implemented multi-threaded graph algorithms able to handle extremely large graphs and authored flexible testing frameworks and simulators used in undergraduate OS coursework. Based in Cambridge, MA, she blends research-grade performance optimization with a practical, education-focused approach to software engineering.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 5.0, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Madison West High School
French, English
Github Skills (25)
simulation10
sem10
simulate10
python10
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testing10
simulations10
bash10
c1110
c1710
system10
thread10
sys10
command-line-utility10
semaphore10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
remzi-arpacidusseau/ostep-code
Feb 2018 - Aug 2021
Code from various chapters in OSTEP (http://www.ostep.org)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 3 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Anna primarily contributed code examples related to operating systems concepts, as presented in the OSTEP textbook. These examples cover fundamental topics such as threading, process management, memory allocation, inter-process communication (using semaphores), and file I/O. The user's contributions involved implementing basic thread synchronization mechanisms, demonstrating concurrency, and providing low-level system programming examples.
chaptersostep
remzi-arpacidusseau/ostep-homework
May 2019 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 135 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Anna's commits primarily focused on developing a process scheduling simulator written in Python. They implemented the core functionality of the simulator, including a process run function, and added features such as the "add simulator". Further commits enhanced the simulator by fixing issues and refactoring the Python code. The work involved the design and implementation of process states, instruction sets, and the control flow for simulating CPU and I/O operations, which are core features of any process scheduler.
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