Jacek Galowicz, M.Sc.
Enthusiastic Computer Engineer
Work
- 2014 - Currently
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Sr. Software Engineer at FireEye, Inc., Braunschweig, Germany
- Core R&D
- 2013 - 2014
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Freelancer, Aachen, Germany
- Software Development
- General kernel hacking (Linux, USB stack)
- Library development (C++, Qt Framework, Mongo DB)
- Software Development
- 2012 - 2013
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Student Intern/Master Thesis Worker at Intel Corporation, Braunschweig, Germany
- Internship
- Implementing a live migration feature for a virtual machine monitor based on an innovative microkernel operating system.
(NOVA Microhypervisor, Microkernel Operating Systems, lwIP TCP/IP Stack, Intel VT-Extensions, Live Migration)
- Implementing a live migration feature for a virtual machine monitor based on an innovative microkernel operating system.
- Master Thesis
- Extension of the live migration feature for the master thesis
(ACPI, PCI hot plugging, preserving TCP connections over migrations, Network trunking)
- Extension of the live migration feature for the master thesis
- Internship
- 2009 - 2012
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Student Assistant at Chair for Operating Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Research
- MetalSVM (Kernel Functionality, Hypervisor, Documentation)
- Development of Benchmarks and GUI-frontends (C/C++, OpenMP, MPI, Java, Qt, Gnuplot)
- Teaching
- Tutorials in Basics of Computer Science 4
(C, x86 Assembly, Virtual Memory, Processes/Threads, Shared Memory, Synchronization, etc.) - Lab Courses (C++, Object Oriented Programming)
- Tutorials in Basics of Computer Science 4
- Research
- 2010
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Student Assistant at Chair for Software for Systems on Silicon, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Teaching
- Tutorials in Basics of Computer Science 1
(C, General Algorithms and Data Structures)
- Tutorials in Basics of Computer Science 1
- Teaching
- 2004 - 2009
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Freelancer at Academy GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne, Germany
- Framework design for web based medical decision support systems (Java, SOAP, WebObjects, H2 Database Engine)
- GUI frontends (Java, Swing, Qt, JavaScript, AJAX)
- Applications for handhelds (Visual Basic)
Education
- University
- RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- 2011 - 2013
- M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering
- Master thesis: Live Migration of Virtual Machines between Heterogeneous Host Systems (PDF)
- 2008 - 2011
- B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering
- Bachelor thesis: Design and Implementation of a Virtualization Layer for the Operating System Kernel "MetalSVM" (PDF)
Skills
- Languages
- German, English (fluent), 汉语（普通话）, French, Polish (basics)
- Programming/Scripting Languages
- C, C++11, Assembler (x86, AVR), GLSL, Java, SQL, Ruby, PHP, Bash, Google Dart, JavaScript
- Theory
- Electrical Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing, Calculus, Linear Algebra (especially 3D Vector Maths as in Computer Graphics), System Theory/Control Engineering, Operating System Principles (Monolithic and Micro Kernel), Realtime Systems, Embedded Systems, Parallel Computing (Shared Memory, Message Passing), Virtualization, Numeric Physics Simulation, Cryptography, Compilers
- Tools
- Git, SVN, Make, Vim, LaTeX, Apache Ant, Eclipse
- Frameworks/Libraries/Technologies
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- Parallel Programming: OpenMP, MPI
- GUI: Qt, Swing, Cocoa
- Database: MySQL, Oracle SQL/PLSQL
- Graphics/GPU: OpenGL
- Communication: TCP/IP Sockets
- Web Programming: Google Dart, JavaScript, jQuery, Cappuccino, WebGL
- Got hands dirty on
- Linux Kernel (Lguest Hypervisor), MetalSVM Kernel, Intel SCC, lwIP TCP/IP Stack, NOVA Microhypervisor Userland
- Operating Systems
- Linux, OS X
- More General Stuff
- Tinkering with electronics (microcontrollers, soldering, etc.), Repairing electric devices & motorized vehicles myself
Professional Interests
- Operating Systems
- Virtualization
- Physics Simulation
- High Performance Computing