Christos Kozyrakis
Professor Of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristos Kozyrakis is a Stanford professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who leads the multi-scale architecture & systems team (MAST), advancing hardware and system software across devices from phones to warehouse-scale datacenters. His research tackles resource-efficient cloud computing, energy- and memory-efficient architectures for emerging workloads, and scalable operating systems, informed by industry stints at Google and leadership roles at Mesosphere and EPFL. A UC Berkeley PhD and University of Crete alumnus, he is an ACM and IEEE fellow known for bridging rigorous academic research with practical system deployments. Beyond academia, he advises startups like Enfabrica and contributes to open-source projects—improving documentation and DNS-based service discovery for Mesos—highlighting a rare mix of deep hardware expertise and real-world systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Crete
Github Skills (6)
mesos10
go10
service-discovery10
dns10
documentation9
zookeeper8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mesosphere/mesos-dns
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
DNS-based service discovery for Mesos.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 162 commits, 53 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Christos primarily contributed to documentation updates and fixes, improving the readability and clarity of the project's documentation. Their work included modifying documentation layouts, adding tutorials, and updating the configuration information. The user also made several functional code changes, including adding and modifying records for the service discovery DNS functionality.
dnsservice-baseddiscoveryservice-discoverymesos
kozyraki/phoenix
Nov 2014 - Sep 2016
an API and runtime environment for data processing with MapReduce for shared-memory multi-core & multiprocessor systems.
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
apimemorymultiprocessorshared-memorydata-processing
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