Ward Jaradat
Principal Engineer at Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWard Jaradat is a Principal Engineer based in Edinburgh with 11 years of experience researching and building systems at the intersection of operating systems, virtualization, and distributed computing. Now leading systems infrastructure research at Huawei R&D UK, he has a track record of turning academic innovations—such as the Stardust Unikernel—into practical tooling for low-latency, lightweight services. His prior work at Adobe focused on large-scale distributed messaging, cost-efficient infrastructure, observability, and data migration, and he has presented on deploying Unikernels in production. A PhD from the University of St Andrews underpins his expertise in decentralized orchestration, functional dataflow languages, and moving computation closer to data. He blends deep research chops with production engineering, often bridging proof-of-concept systems and enterprise-scale deployments. Colleagues describe him as someone who makes virtualization and heterogenous computing tangible and operational rather than purely theoretical.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of St AndrewsBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Jordan
English, Arabic
Github Skills (10)
xen6
kernel5
unikernel4
rust3
linux3
reference-implementation3
operating-system3
virtio2
virtualization2
docker1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
StardustOS/minimal
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
A minimal kernel used as a reference implementation to support teaching activities
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
kernelteachinglinuxactivitiesreference-implementation
wardjaradat/homepage
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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