Walter Smuts
Kernel Hypervisor Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Smuts is a Kernel Hypervisor Engineer with a decade of experience building low-level systems at Amazon Web Services, currently focused on improving EC2 live-migration. Trained as an Electrical and Computer Engineer at the University of Cape Town, he blends expertise in kernel and hypervisor internals with interests in programming language design, signal processing, and applied mathematics. His tenure at AWS spans internships to senior engineering roles, giving him deep operational knowledge of cloud compute infrastructure and production-grade reliability. Known for tackling complex concurrency and performance challenges, he brings a research-minded approach to practical system design and optimization.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc(Eng) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bsc(Eng) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Cape TownNational Senior Certificate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, National Senior Certificate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Pretoria Boys High School
Github Skills (137)
synthesizer10
python10
lightning-network10
peer-to-peer10
cryptocurrency10
piano10
animation10
midi10
computer-music10
rust10
music10
synth10
lightning10
bitcoin10
sequencer10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
WalterSmuts/generic_singleton
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
A rust library crate for creating generic singletons
Contributions:38 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
craterust
WalterSmuts/clipboard-website
Nov 2020 - Apr 2026
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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