Damien Stanton
Senior Research Software Engineer at PwC
Laurel, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolDamien Stanton is a Senior Research Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable systems and leading technical teams, currently developing research software at PwC while pursuing graduate CS studies at CU Boulder. His background spans distributed systems, machine learning, and backend engineering across startups and enterprise roles, including technical leadership at SignalFrame and PwC. An active contributor to performance- and security-sensitive open source—he helped migrate Firecracker microVM code to Rust 2018—he combines systems-level rigor with practical delivery. Based in Laurel, Maryland, he pairs an armchair interest in type theory with hands-on expertise in VM, networking, and production ML pipelines, making him comfortable bridging research and production requirements.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (7)
serverless10
rust10
virtualization10
container9
open-source9
min8
minimalapis8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on updating the Firecracker microVM project to use the Rust 2018 edition. This involved modifying various source files across the `vmm`, `arch`, `seccomp`, `jailer`, `api_server`, `logger`, `micro_http`, `cpuid`, `net_gen`, and `snapshot` directories to reflect the changes. These modifications suggest the user worked on foundational aspects of the microVM's functionality, including the virtual machine monitor, architecture-specific code, and supporting libraries and tools.
serverlessvirtual-machinesandboxvirtualizationrust
damienstanton/Sketches
Dec 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
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