Larry Dewey
Senior Staff Software Engineer at ContextOS
Buda, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLarry Dewey is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building backend and middleware systems in C, C++, Rust, and Python across GNU/Linux environments. He has driven confidential computing initiatives at AMD—helping author IETF standards, co-owning the VirTEE organization, and publishing user guides—while also delivering dramatic performance wins such as a 270x algorithm speedup by porting Python to Rust. Comfortable leading technical strategy and mentoring teams, Larry blends systems-level expertise (QEMU/KVM/libvirt, SEV-SNP) with practical cloud and on-prem engineering at ContextOS. A committed open source and Free Software advocate, he has maintained key upstream projects (libguestfs, VirTEE) and contributed to industry incubations and consortiums, bridging research, standards, and shipping production code.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma General Education, High school diploma General Education at Saint David High SchoolUndergraduate Program Emphasis in Computers, Undergraduate Program Emphasis in Computers at Cochise Community CollegeBrigham Young University-Idaho
English
Github Skills (200)
kvm10
confidential-computing10
python10
workspace10
security10
tee10
infrastructure10
vms10
attestation10
isolation10
cri-o10
remote-execution10
emulation10
k8s10
firecracker10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
larrydewey/virtee-sev
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Rust library exposing APIs for the AMD SEV platform
Contributions:240 pushes, 58 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 8 months
rustamdrust-library
larrydewey/snp
Feb 2023 - May 2023
Rust library exposing APIs for the AMD SEV-SNP platform
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 months
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