Boris Itkis
Member Of Technical Staff at Pure Storage
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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RockstarBoris Itkis is a seasoned embedded systems and networking engineer with 25+ years designing large-scale applications, kernel-level software, and hardware/software integration. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Pure Storage, he has led engineering teams and delivered firmware, BSP, and cryptography-enabled systems across companies like SonicWALL, Comcast, and GRAFT Tokens. His deep low-level expertise spans Linux and FreeBSD kernels, VxWorks, C/C++, Python, CUDA, and custom OpenSSL engines, plus practical experience with networking ASICs and microcontroller buses. Boris combines hands-on reverse engineering and binary analysis with architectural leadership—having designed decentralized P2P applications and hierarchical micro-controller domains for multi-blade appliances. Based in Sunnyvale, he is comfortable shipping production code, mentoring remote teams, and bridging security, firmware, and networking domains in high-throughput environments.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (82)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bitkis/connectedhomeip
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Project Connected Home over IP is a new Working Group within the Zigbee Alliance. This Working Group plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet.
Contributions:17 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
home-automationconnectedtenethome-assistantpromote
bitkis/vagga
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Vagga is a containerization tool without daemons
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 1 day
golangcontainersdaemonsdocker-imagedocker
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