Mike Day
Retired Ex Novell, Intel, IBM, Lockheed-Martin, AMD Kernel And OS, Linux, Virtualization
Dripping Springs, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMike Day is a retired kernel and virtualization engineer with 13+ years of focused experience designing and hardening hypervisors, custom kernels, and embedded IoT systems for organizations including AMD, IBM, Lockheed Martin, and Rackspace. He specializes in live patching, vulnerability mitigation, forensics, and applied cryptography, and has authored Linux Foundation training on KVM development. Mike has driven upstream contributions to Xen, KVM, and QEMU and led teams to productionize virtualization on server, Power, and mainframe platforms. His work blends deep systems-level debugging with practical product delivery—creating live-patching solutions and host reinforcements used in public cloud environments. Based in Dripping Springs, Texas, he combines consulting and training experience with a track record of building security-first kernel features for commercial offerings. A philosopher by degree, he brings a rare mix of rigorous systems engineering and thoughtful, security-minded problem framing.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree Philosophy at Brigham Young University
Stackoverflow
306reputation
37kreached
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Github Skills (14)
monitoring10
linux10
bcc10
networking10
bpf9
ebpf9
elf6
bash6
dictionary6
linux-kernel6
python6
inline-assembly6
unicode6
gcc6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ncultra/openslp
Dec 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 5 months
ncultra/scripts
Nov 2015 - Feb 2021
utility programs
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes in 5 years 4 months
programs
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