Lincoln Thurlow
Senior Research Engineer II at USC Information Sciences Institute
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLincoln Thurlow is a Senior Research Engineer II with eight years of experience building systems-level software in storage, networking, and security, currently advancing research applications at USC Information Sciences Institute. He brings a research-programmer mindset to production problems, bridging rigorous academic methods from his MS in Computer Engineering at UC Santa Cruz with practical engineering gained across startups and research labs. Lincoln’s background spans hands-on roles from QA and security analysis to software engineering, giving him a strong appreciation for reliability, testability, and threat awareness in distributed systems. Based in California, he excels at turning experimental prototypes into maintainable systems and often works at the intersection of low-level systems work and applied research. An underappreciated strength is his track record of long-tenured contributions within ISI, indicating deep institutional knowledge and continuity on complex, evolving projects.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (108)
linux-distribution10
embedded10
linux10
userland10
database10
busybox10
kubernetes10
key-value-store10
storage10
kafka10
distributed-systems10
etcd10
kernel10
go10
raft10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
isi-lincoln/fastclick
Jan 2022 - May 2024
FastClick - A faster version of the Click Modular Router featuring batching, advanced multi-processing and improved Netmap and DPDK support (ANCS'15). Check the metron branch for Metron specificities (NSDI'18). PacketMill modifications (ASPLOS'21) as well as MiddleClick(ToN, 2021) are merged in main.
Contributions:97 pushes, 22 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 5 months
yangimprovedtladpdkmetron
mergetb/go-ceph
Oct 2018 - Jan 2020
Go bindings for Ceph :octopus: :octopus: :octopus:
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 3 months
golangoctopuscephgo
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