George Dunlap
Founder at Laleo Language Ltd
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Dunlap is a seasoned software engineer and solo founder with 19 years of experience, now building Laleo Language and the Guided Immersion method to help people learn languages more effectively. Formerly a Principal Engineer at Citrix, he spent nearly two decades driving development, performance analysis, and community-facing work on the open-source Xen hypervisor. His background blends deep systems-level expertise—Linux kernel and RDMA patching during his research at the University of Michigan—with practical production engineering and open-source advocacy. George combines academic rigor from a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering with entrepreneurial focus, moving from core virtualization tech to productizing human-centered learning. He is comfortable explaining complex distributed-systems concepts to diverse audiences, having given technical and business talks about virtualization and open-source models. Based in Cambridge, UK, he brings an unusual mix of kernel-level craftsmanship and founder-driven product intuition.
19 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan
English, Chinese, koine greek
Github Skills (153)
programming-language10
interpreter10
go-git10
linux10
sql10
stacked10
golang10
database10
sqlite10
go10
sql-database10
init9
vagrant9
hash9
compiler9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
CentOS-virt7/centos-release-xen
Nov 2015 - Aug 2018
"Release" package for setting up and enabling Xen4CentOS from the Virtualization SIG
Contributions:7 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 9 months
virtualizationsigsetting
gwd/tl
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:49 commits in 1 month
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