Amit Singh: Résumé

Amit Singh
Contact Information
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osxbook.com

Work

Researcher, Manager
5/2006—currentGoogle, Mountain View, California
Secret projects Manager of Macintosh Engineering (2006—2009) Embedded systems Created and marketed MacFUSE Also see the Projects page
Researcher
7/2003—5/2006IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California
"Unspoofable" secure communication in insecure environments Autonomic security of managed networked systems Simulation of "interesting" hypothetical disk drives Database + Data Mining + File System + Linux Kernel Trusted Computing Linux on the Desktop One-click migration between operating systems Linux off (not on) the Apple iPod Software "DRM" (and anti-DRM)
Architect, Manager, Technical Leader
10/1999—7/2003Ensim Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
Played roles of an Architect, a Manager, and a Technical Leader Initiated and led large-scale software engineering projects Designed and implemented operating system kernel extensions and components (Solaris and Linux) for breakthrough virtualization technology Designed and implemented scalable and distributed web service delivery platforms and web service offerings Designed and implemented various software licensing and security schemes Extended the Perl and Python runtimes to seamlessly support signed/encrypted scripts and modules
Member of Technical Staff
10/1998—10/1999Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Designed and implemented new techniques for Quality of Service in Operating Systems and Computer Networking Designed and implemented QoS versions of protocols like NFS, FTP, and HTTP to provide Quality of Service through hierarchical fair share schedulers for CPU, network bandwidth, and disk I/O Extended network protocol stacks (such as the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack) for Quality of Service
Software Consultant
6/1998—10/1998IIT, New Delhi
Designed the architecture and inter-networking of various computer science laboratories in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Integrated computer systems from Microsoft, Sun, Intel, Cisco, and Hewlett-Packard
Systems Manager
8/1996—6/1998IIT, New Delhi
Managed and maintained a state of the art computing laboratory Ensured smooth working of over 40 heterogeneous software and hardware systems
Columnist
9/1997—9/1998PC World Magazine, New Delhi
Wrote articles on computing technologies for PC World Technology consultant
Columnist
5/1997—9/1997PC Quest Magazine, New Delhi
Wrote articles on computing technologies for PC Quest Technology consultant

Book

Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach (ISBN 0321278542), Addison-Wesley Professional, June 2006

Publications

A list of my publications

Projects

Examples of publicly available software I have created for Mac OS X
Another list of selected projects

Patents Filed/Received

Creating an Assured Execution Environment for At Least One Computer Program Executable on a Computer System
Manipulating the Original Content of At Least One Original Read-Only File in a Computer System
Virtualizing Port Addresses for Non-conflicting Use by Multiple Virtual Processes
Signaled Receiver Processing
Methods and Apparatus for Providing Quality of Service for Legacy Applications

Interesting Awards/Rewards

Grand Prize at the Hewlett-Packard National (United States and Canada) Information Systems Professionals Appreciation Day, New York City, 1999
Reward check from Donald Knuth

Selected Lectures/Talks

MacFUSE State of the Union, December 2008, Google Inc., Mountain View, California
Mac OS X Hacking, September 2008, Google Inc., Seattle, Washington
MacFUSE and Mac OS X, December 2007, Apple Campus, Cupertino, California
MacFUSE, May 2007, Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series, Mountain View, California
Taming Mac OS X File Systems, January 2007, Macworld, San Francisco, California
Software Protection and the TPM—The Mac OS X Story, December 2006, 23^rd Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Germany
"DRM" in Mac OS X: The True Picture, August 2006, Google Inc., Mountain View, California
A Journey to the Center of Mac OS X, August 2006, Apple Store, San Francisco, California
Mac OS X Internals, July 2006, Apple Campus, Cupertino, California
Operating System Design Techniques, May 2006, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Mac OS X Internals: The Book, February 2006, Google Inc., Mountain View, California
The Mac OS X Kernel, May 2005, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland
Mac OS X, April 2004, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Innovation for Fun and Profit, April 2004, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Virtualized Operating Systems, November 2002, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Unix Mischiefs: The New Frontiers, January 2000, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Laudit: Playing with System Calls on Linux, O'Reilly Open Source Convention 1999, Monterey, California

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi

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