Pierre Olivier
Senior Lecturer at The University of Manchester
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre Olivier is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Manchester with over a decade of experience researching and teaching systems software, particularly operating systems, hypervisors, and embedded storage. His work blends performance, security, and power-consumption analysis across both academic and applied settings, informed by prior postdoctoral and research faculty roles at Virginia Tech and hands-on FPGA and embedded-systems projects from his PhD. He maintains a strong teaching portfolio across undergraduate and graduate courses in systems and architecture while running an active research program on flash storage management and energy-aware system design. Comfortable moving between low-level hardware implementations (VHDL/FPGA) and systems-level measurement and simulation, he brings a rare combination of classroom pedagogy and experimental systems craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, speciality Software for embedded systems, Computer Science, Pass 70-80%, head of the class, Master's degree, speciality Software for embedded systems, Computer Science, Pass 70-80%, head of the class at Université de Bretagne OccidentaleDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Soutenance réalisée le 1er décember 2014, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Soutenance réalisée le 1er décember 2014 at Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient
French, English
Github Skills (80)
security10
unikernel10
cloud-native10
operating-system10
qemu10
aix10
linux10
virtualization10
application10
osdev10
kernel10
popcorn10
heterogeneous10
heap-algorithm10
rust9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
unikraft/loupe
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Loupe: Syscall Usage Analysis Tool
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 6 months
olivierpierre/discord-office-hours-queue-bot
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
This is a simple bot for Discord, maintaining a queue of students for an online office hour session.
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 4 months
office-hoursdiscordbotdiscord-botsimple-bot
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