Felipe Huici
Chief Executive Officer at Unikraft
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Huici is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur who co-founded and currently serves as CEO of Unikraft, delivering true serverless solutions that achieve sub-10ms cold boots and 100x improvements in server efficiency. With a PhD in Computer Networks from UCL and over a decade leading research at NEC Laboratories Europe, he combines deep systems and kernel-level expertise with product-driven startup execution. His hands-on contributions to the Unikraft kernel—fixing ARM timer/interrupt handling and migrating GIC drivers—underscore a rare ability to operate at both architectural and code-level detail. Felipe has a strong track record in high-performance NFV, unikernels and EU research programs, and he has led technical teams, co-supervised PhDs, and chaired major conferences. Based in Heidelberg, he blends academic rigor with commercial impact, enabling use cases like on-demand AI agents and millisecond-lived databases that materially reduce cloud cost and latency.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, With Distinction, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, With Distinction at University of VirginiaHigh School, High School at W.T. Woodson High SchoolHigh School, High School at Argentine High SchoolUniversity College London
English, Spanish, French, German
Github Skills (18)
controller10
architecture10
time-management10
interrupt-handling10
c-programming10
kernel10
interrupt10
spinlock10
kernel-mode10
arm10
pid-controller10
architectures10
performance-monitor9
performance-analysis9
operating-system9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
unikraft/unikraft
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock best-in-class performance, security primitives and efficiency savings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:19 commits, 633 PRs, 779 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily contributed to the Unikraft kernel project by fixing timer and interrupt handling mechanisms. Their work included modifying time-related functions, converting data types, and enhancing the generic timer implementation on the ARM architecture. They also made changes related to spinlock implementations and GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller) driver, indicating involvement in core kernel components and system-level programming. Additionally, they contributed to the migration of the GIC drivers, which implies architectural understanding.
kernelposix-compliantvirtualizationmicroserviceposix
unikraft/fork-lwip
Dec 2022 - Apr 2025
lwIP mirror from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lwip.git
Contributions:59 pushes, 3 tags in 2 years 3 months
cgitlwipgnu
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