Rong Liu
Software Engineer at Intel
US
Summary
Rong Liu is a Senior Virtualization Software Engineer with 8+ years at Intel, based in Portland, Oregon, who blends deep kernel, virtualization and cloud-security expertise with a knack for cross‑stack engineering from hardware to userland. She has driven impactful open-source work—contributing PTM and PCIe hierarchy features to the prominent ACRN hypervisor and leading Intel’s VBH project to harden cloud hosts with minimal performance impact. Her work spans time‑critical networking, IA simulation using QEMU, side‑channel mitigations, and tools that capture system state pre‑reset, reflecting a practical focus on observability and deployable security. A perfectionist in product quality, she moves quickly on high‑stakes problems and has a track record of turning research‑grade ideas into production and open‑source outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
c1710
hyper10
hypervisor10
embedded10
pcie10
acr10
c1110
sys10
hyper-v10
virtualization10
power-management9
c-programming9
pci8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Project ACRN hypervisor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 17 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rong primarily focused on developing features within the ACRN hypervisor related to Power and Thermal Management (PTM). They implemented functionality for creating and destroying virtual root ports, which are essential for PTM. The contributions also involve enabling PTM on passthrough devices and integrating these devices with the virtual root port to support the PTM hierarchy. These changes involved modifying configurations, and adding helper functions to build and manage PCI hierarchies within the ACRN environment.
hypervisoracrn
intel/vbh
Feb 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 11 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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