Patrick Roy
Student Assistant at Technical University of Munich
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Roy is a systems-focused software engineer and physics student with three years of production experience building and hardening virtualization technology at AWS, including significant contributions to Firecracker and upstream Linux kernel patches to mitigate transient-execution risks. He pairs rigorous mathematical and theoretical computer science training from Oxford and LMU with hands-on low-level engineering—kernel programming, KVM, fuzzing, formal verification and Rust systems work—and maintains multiple rust-vmm crates. A self-taught coder since age 12, he shipped high-impact features like huge pages support for Firecracker and improved CI/cross-compilation tooling on the widely used firecracker-microvm project. Comfortable across Rust, C and Python, he blends research-minded problem solving with pragmatic software delivery and prefers remote/hybrid roles oriented toward embedded or space-sector systems. An unusual combination of academic depth and production open-source stewardship makes him well suited to roles at the intersection of systems security, virtualization and embedded spacecraft software.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science, Master of Science Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science at University of OxfordBachelor of Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Mathematics at TU Dortmund UniversityMaster of Science - MS Elite Master Course Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Master of Science - MS Elite Master Course Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMiami University
German, English
Github Skills (16)
rust10
cicd10
build-automation10
testing9
automated-tests9
administration8
administrator8
code-coverage8
git8
system-administration8
system8
admin8
sys8
os-development7
open-source7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 2098 reviews, 61 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Patrick's contributions primarily focused on back-end development and related infrastructure tasks, especially concerning the build and testing infrastructure of the firecracker project. Their work included debugging and fixing cross-compilation issues, refining the build process for rust binaries, and improving CI by integrating more automated testing and preventing merge-blocking issues. Furthermore, they updated dependencies and addressed warnings to improve the codebase's reliability and maintainability.
containerssecureminimalistrustserverless
roypat/firecracker
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Contributions:13 PRs, 1991 pushes, 371 branches in 2 years 6 months
secureserverlessmicrovmscomputingserverless-computing
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