Costin Lupu
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolCostin Lupu is a software engineer with over a decade of experience focused on virtualization, cloud infrastructure and security, currently contributing to EC2 Nitro’s Confidential Computing and Security features at AWS. He combines academic research—where he reduced VM instantiation times and contributed core components to the Unikraft unikernel project—with hands-on engineering across hypervisor and userspace VMM layers. His work spans AMD SEV-SNP, Nitro Enclaves and NitroTPM, reflecting a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and practical cloud-scale deployment. Prior roles include safety-critical real-time systems at Thales and IPv6 edge solutions, giving him strong systems-thinking across domains. Based in Rotterdam, he mentors students and engineers alike, translating research insights into measurable performance and security improvements. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often focuses on bridging performance gains with deployable security features rather than purely theoretical optimizations.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Github Skills (24)
ieee5
ssa5
hypervisor4
nfv3
unikernel3
ack3
ospf3
react3
router3
packet3
xen3
kvm3
freebsd3
openbsd3
network-monitoring2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lukablurr/n2n_v3
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:62 commits in 1 month
lukablurr/n2nsim
Sep 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 2 months
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