Tyler Hicks
Linux Kernel Architect at NVIDIA
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Hicks is a Linux Kernel Architect with 14 years of deep expertise in Linux security, kernel hardening, and production kernel delivery. He has led Microsoft's Linux Kernel Team to ship production-quality kernels across ten products—including Azure Boost and Windows Subsystem for Linux—driving performance milestones like 200 Gbps networking and multi-GB/s storage throughput. Previously he shaped Ubuntu’s security posture at Canonical and contributed upstream to AppArmor and eCryptfs, and his open-source work includes meaningful enhancements and test coverage for libseccomp (exposing API-level functionality to Python and adding SCMP_ACT_LOG support). Based in Dallas, he pairs hands-on kernel development with program-level leadership across multi-product release cycles and cross-vendor coordination. Colleagues rely on him for tricky security design and process improvements that turn research into robust, auditable production kernels.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (11)
c1710
kernel10
security10
network-security10
seccomp10
c1110
python10
kernel-mode10
testing10
bpf9
documentation8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
seccomp/libseccomp
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
The main libseccomp repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 43 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tyler contributed to the `libseccomp` project by implementing and improving API level functionality within the library. They modified existing code to handle all possible return values when checking flag support and exposed the API level functionality to Python applications. Their work also involved enhancing test coverage, adding tests for new features like the LOG action, and adding infrastructure changes to support SCMP_ACT_LOG in tests.
bpfseccompcomputer-engineeringcanopenlibseccomp
tyhicks/tyhicks.github.io
Sep 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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