Jim Cadden
Research Manager at IBM
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Cadden is a research-oriented cloud and systems leader with 14 years of experience advancing secure, lightweight virtualization and cloud-native infrastructure at IBM and in academia. Currently a Research Manager and Senior Research Scientist at IBM and an adjunct assistant professor at Boston University, he blends hands-on systems hacking with strategic research—leading work that helped incubate Confidential Containers into a CNCF sandbox project. His background spans serverless and unikernel research, CTO-adjacent technical program management for Red Hat, and teaching graduate distributed systems, reflecting both practical delivery and deep technical mentorship. Based in Boston with a PhD in Computer Science, he brings a laid-back demeanor paired with a relentless drive to prototype risky ideas that reveal practical paths for emerging technologies.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, BS Computer Science, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (60)
kubernetes10
firecracker10
kvm10
docker10
qemu10
virtual-machine10
security10
virtualization10
kata-containers10
cri-o10
elastic10
unikernel10
k8s10
go-api9
llm9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SESA/EbbRT
May 2013 - Apr 2019
EbbRT: elastic building block runtime
Contributions:1 release, 315 commits, 124 PRs in 6 years
elasticruntimeunikernellibraryoselasticsearch
jimcadden/.vim
Mar 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:53 pushes in 9 years 1 month
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