Oliver Calder
Software Engineer II at Canonical
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Calder is a systems-focused software engineer with seven years of experience building secure, performance-critical software across firmware, OS-level services, and research systems. Currently on Canonical’s snapd team, he works to keep applications up to date and privacy-respecting, drawing on prior firmware work at Seagate where he authored C and ARM assembly solutions and a Rust simulator to optimize drive scanning and actuator data transfers. A lifelong Linux user and open-source contributor, he has built a minimal unikernel in Rust and benchmarked it against VMs and containers, demonstrating notable performance gains. Comfortable across low-level systems, automation, and applied research, he also brings teaching and mentoring experience from Carleton College and a background in mathematics, linguistics, and signal-based ML research that informs a practical, analytic approach to complex problems.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at Carleton CollegeMinnetonka High School
Github Skills (88)
service-manager10
snap10
api10
fonts10
64-bit10
font-awesome10
octicons10
shell9
powerline9
python9
statusline9
material-design-icons9
go9
steam8
linux8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
olivercalder/qr-server
Mar 2022 - Jun 2025
A simple qr code generator built using Flask.
Contributions:11 PRs, 24 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 3 months
olivercalder/rust-kernel
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
A Rust unikernel based on Phil Oppermann's blog_os, designed to execute lambda functions in a serverless environment.
Contributions:4 PRs, 77 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
lambda-functionsrustserverlessunikernel
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