Paul Fox
Director at Morgan Stanley
Surrey Heath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Fox is a seasoned director and systems performance specialist with 18+ years of hands-on experience in low-latency systems, kernel programming and enterprise-grade tooling across Unix, Linux and Windows. He blends deep C/C++, Perl and Python expertise with practical knowledge of SDLC/CI-CD, automated testing and security/audit processes, having led global teams and cost-reduction initiatives at Morgan Stanley while running Foxtrot Systems Ltd. A longtime contributor to dtrace4linux, Paul has ported and maintained kernel and userland tooling to understand and measure kernel/application latency and infrastructure-induced outages. His background spans embedded protocol work and device drivers through to front-office trading architectures, giving him an uncommon ability to trace problems from silicon to application. He started building and shipping tools as a teenager and authored the CRISP Software Editor, an early Unix editor, reflecting a lifelong appetite for deep technical problem solving.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
2-2, computer science, 2-2, computer science at University of YorkBattersea Grammar
Github Skills (10)
kernel10
debugging10
system-calls10
debug10
assembly10
c-programming10
dtrace10
linux-kernel10
assembler10
x8610
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dtrace4linux/linux
Apr 2008 - Sep 2019
dtrace for linux - kernel driver and userland tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:454 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 11 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions appear to involve significant interaction with the core source code of a DTrace implementation for Linux. They made modifications to the C code used for generating and interacting with probes, as well as additions and modifications to several supporting headers. They were also responsible for maintaining the project's build configuration, including updating the makefiles, build scripts and porting definitions and libraries.
kernelkernel-driverlinuxlinux-kerneluserland
dtrace4linux/fcterm
Aug 2011 - Mar 2022
Contributions:132 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 8 months
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