George Neville-neil
Associate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Neville-neil is an experienced systems and security engineer with over two decades designing and implementing operating systems, networking, and time-protocol software, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Yale. He has written and co-authored influential books on FreeBSD and maintains a track record of shipping code used in high-assurance environments—his work has even flown to Mars as part of VxWorks on NASA missions. George combines academic rigor (Industrial Visitor at Cambridge) with practical startup and advisory experience as a co-founder of Elephance and tech partner to venture firms, and he continues to consult and develop kernel-level software for finance and beyond. Known for caring for large codebases and mentoring through teaching, he brings deep expertise in OS internals, networking, and computer security grounded in both research and high-stakes production deployments.
21 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Yale UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Japanese, Dutch, French, Chinese
Github Skills (124)
openbsd10
risc10
unix10
history10
linux10
shell10
netbsd10
philosophy10
vxlan10
src10
risc-v10
bsd10
ipv610
evolution10
version-control10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
opendtrace/opendtrace
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
Code for the cross platform, single source, OpenDTrace implementation
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 years 4 months
cross-platformsingle-source
gvnn3/freebsd
Jan 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:66 pushes, 16 branches, 2 comments in 5 years 8 months
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