Summary
Eric Mackay is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in Seattle with eight years of hands-on experience building low-level systems for cloud and virtualization platforms. He brings deep expertise in operating systems, hypervisors, storage, and computer architecture from roles at AWS (EC2 Nitro and Windows kernel/driver work) and Oracle, backed by an MS in Computer Science from the University of Washington. His background spans kernel-mode drivers, BIOS and device emulation, and high-performance CPU/memory research, with a particular affinity for Rust and compiler-aided memory-level parallelism. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research-grade architecture thinking with production-grade cloud infrastructure, and he’s comfortable moving between silicon-aware design and hypervisor-level implementation. An underappreciated strength is his experience in both control-plane systems and low-level device emulation, enabling end-to-end improvements in VM performance and reliability.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of Washington
BS, Computer Engineering, minor in Computer Science, BS, Computer Engineering, minor in Computer Science at Brigham Young University