Ryan Sana
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRyan Sana is a system software architect and visiting researcher based in London with 11 years’ experience building high-performance networking and memory systems. He combines deep kernel and QEMU expertise—recently focusing on CXL technologies at Huawei R&D—with academic research at Cambridge and Queen Mary where he pursued a PhD in computer systems. His work spans accelerating memory address translation for large-memory servers to improving virtualization and availability for grid controllers, blending low-level systems optimization with practical open-source contributions. Known for identifying and implementing performance and reliability improvements in Linux and QEMU, he brings both community-oriented engineering and rigorous research methods to production-grade system software. An interesting thread through his career is repeatedly bridging academic research and industry implementation, turning experimental ideas into kernel and hypervisor enhancements.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Computer Systems, Doctor of Philosophy Computer Systems at Queen Mary University of London
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Github Skills (82)
database10
userspace10
lossless10
xilinx9
public-cloud9
storage-engine9
multicore9
timestamping9
fpga9
verilog9
low-latency9
tcp9
toolchain9
dpdk9
llvm9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sarsanaee/Simple-C-Compiler
Feb 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years 7 months
machnett/Backdraft
Aug 2019 - May 2022
Backdraft: a Lossless Virtual Switch that Prevents the Slow Receiver Problem. USENIX NSDI 2022
Contributions:205 commits, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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