Gaelan Steele
Software Engineer at Ember
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGaelan Steele is a software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building systems at Ember while completing an integrated Masters in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. He has applied full-stack and systems skills in public-sector fellowships at CMS and in hands-on roles from system administration to long-term coding internships. An active contributor to rust-vmm and the widely used cloud-hypervisor project, he focuses on idiomatic Rust refactors and maintainability improvements that reduce technical debt and satisfy strict linting and security standards. Gaelan blends low-level virtualization knowledge with practical product delivery experience, and he’s comfortable moving between back-end systems work and full-stack projects. A detail-oriented engineer, he often surfaces small code-quality wins (e.g., Option::map/Option::cloned refactors) that compound into more robust, secure codebases.
12 years of coding experience
Integrated Undergraduate/Masters Computer Science, Integrated Undergraduate/Masters Computer Science at University of St Andrews
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Github Skills (10)
kvm10
rust10
virtualization10
refactoring8
meteor-blaze6
oop6
typescript6
javascript6
meteor6
jquery6
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gaelan primarily focuses on code improvements and refactoring within the `cloud-hypervisor` project, which is a virtual machine monitor. Their commits are characterized by idiomatic Rust code improvements, specifically using `Option::map`, `Option::cloned`, and adjusting constructor field orders to meet clippy's requirements, resulting in more concise and maintainable code. The user has consistently addressed code style issues and applied recommended practices for Rust, as seen in their focus on adhering to coding standards across different components.
memorymonitorcompactfirecrackervirtualization
MCModMachine/craft.json
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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