Ilias Stamatis
Kernel & Hypervisor Engineer (SDE II) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIlias Stamatis is a kernel and hypervisor engineer with 14 years of experience, currently working as an SDE II on AWS's Nitro platform in Cambridge, UK. He builds and upstreams low-level virtualization features—past work includes enabling Xen-on-Nitro, device emulation, and implementing nested TSC scaling for KVM/Linux. His background spans fuzzing and vulnerability research, libvirt and lib389 contributions through Google Summer of Code, and a strong academic foundation in distributed systems and computer science from TU Dresden and Universidad Carlos III. Ilias combines production-grade hypervisor development with a security-minded approach to OS kernels, bridging research-quality prototyping and large-scale cloud deployment. Colleagues describe him as someone who surfaces subtle timing and virtualization issues early, turning brittle edge cases into robust platform features.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 9.2/10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 9.2/10 at International Hellenic UniversityCharles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Master's degree, Distributed Systems Engineering, 1.7, Master's degree, Distributed Systems Engineering, 1.7 at Technische Universität Dresden
Greek, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (44)
django-registration10
converter10
file-format10
webm10
subtitle10
user-registration10
linux-distribution9
ldap9
redux9
django9
linux-kernel9
linux9
git-mirror9
kernel9
python8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ilstam/guitarchords
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:334 commits, 359 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ilstam/apts
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:110 commits, 131 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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