Oriol Abella
Research And Development Engineer at Proton
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolOriol Abella is an R&D engineer with a PhD in Computer Architecture and over a decade of experience building high-performance, low-level software in C/C++ and Rust across Linux, macOS and Windows. He has shipped device-scale agents and installers at Nexthink, contributed backend improvements to the widely-used iovisor/bcc project (including a Python BPF disassembler and map parser), and worked on an Envoy-compatible Rust proxy with WASM plugin support. Comfortable from FPGA research to production-grade CI and installers, he blends deep systems research (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, MIT reconfigurable computing) with hands-on engineering leadership and mentorship. He has led teams, acted as Scrum Master, and run a startup, demonstrating both technical depth and product sensibility. Preferring to be contacted about systems and compiler-level challenges, he intentionally downplays higher-level languages on his profile to avoid irrelevant outreach. Based in the Barcelona metro area, he is an active open-source contributor with a track record of improving debugging, testing and maintainability in critical tooling.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Reconfigurable computing with Bluespec, Reconfigurable computing with Bluespec at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Catalan, Spanish, English
Github Skills (12)
kernel10
linux-kernel10
bcc10
python10
ebpf10
clangd9
clang9
c119
c179
debugging8
testing8
disassembly8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
iovisor/bcc
May 2018 - Mar 2019
BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 13 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Oriol primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) project. Their contributions involved implementing features like specifying BPF program licenses and restricting license definition via CFLAGS to ensure correct behavior. They also addressed bugs by improving the error messages and refining tests. Further improvements include the implementation of a Python BPF disassembler and map layout parser, improving debugging capabilities.
bpflinuxmonitoringnetworking
oriolarcas/diceware-gen
Apr 2019 - Dec 2023
Diceware generator from word lists
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 8 months
diceware
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