Laura Loghin
Rust Embedded Software Engineer at NXP Semiconductors
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Loghin is a Senior Rust Software Engineer with seven years of experience building secure, high-performance systems across virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and embedded domains. She contributed to Firecracker and the rust-vmm ecosystem at AWS, bringing production-hardened microVM and Nitro hypervisor experience to cloud and serverless workloads. Detail-oriented and security-first, she’s implemented configuration-driven VMM features, robust error handling and unit-tested changes that improved test coverage and usability. Based in Bucharest, she now contributes to Scaleway-related projects at Deviqon Labs after embedded systems work at NXP, combining low-level hardware understanding with cloud-scale software craftsmanship. An avid problem solver, she often bridges firmware constraints and hypervisor safety, making her equally effective on embedded devices and cloud platforms.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, 10/10, High School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, 10/10 at Unirea National College, Focsani, RomaniaPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Romanian, English, German
Github Skills (5)
json10
rust10
virtualization10
unit-testing9
serverless8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 41 commits, 76 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily focused on implementing features related to configuring the microVM using a configuration file and deactivating the API socket. They introduced new configuration options within the `VmmConfig` struct, enabling the loading of configurations through a JSON file. Their changes included adding new exit codes to handle invalid JSON and bad configurations and writing unit tests for validating configuration parameters. Furthermore, they removed `--seccomp-level` argument from jailer parameters and improved the Vsock tests.
containerssecureminimalistrustserverless
lauralt/firecracker
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Contributions:4 PRs, 436 pushes, 82 branches in 2 years 6 months
securevmsfirecrackerserverlessmicrovms
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