Jennifer Herbert
Senior Software Engineer, XenServer at Citrix Systems
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJennifer Herbert is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years specializing in low-level and virtualized systems, currently contributing to the XenServer Ring0 team at Citrix in Cambridge. She has deep expertise in C and assembly for kernel-space work—writing schedulers, exception handlers, device drivers and virtualization stacks—and has led large engineering efforts including coordinating teams of ~30 engineers. Her background spans embedded platform HALs, Symbian kernel innovations (zero-copy USB drivers, SMP migrations) and end-to-end XenClient virtualization features, with patents and customer-facing deployments to show practical impact. Fast to pick up new languages and architectures, she moves fluidly between low-level systems design and higher-level product demos and test tooling. Known for marrying algorithmic rigor with pragmatic delivery, she excels at solving hard platform problems that require both architectural vision and meticulous implementation.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, 1st Class, BSc (Hons), Computer Science, 1st Class at The University of Hull
Github Skills (49)
xapi10
vms7
xen7
installer6
oracle-linux5
tpm5
kernel5
manjaro5
socket5
linux-kernel5
plugin5
crypto5
sensu5
linux-distribution4
qemu4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xennifer/xen-api
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
The Xapi Project's XenAPI Server
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
xenapixapi
xennifer/varstored
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches in 27 days
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