CV

Education

• Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
• M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
• B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012

Work experience

• Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
  • GitHub University
  • Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
  • Supervisor: The Users
• Fall 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Hub
• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Tagging issues
  • Supervisor: Professor Git

Skills

• Skill 1
• Skill 2
  • Sub-skill 2.1
  • Sub-skill 2.2
  • Sub-skill 2.3
• Skill 3

Publications

μFork: Supporting POSIX fork Within a Single-Address-Space OS

John Alistair Kressel, Hugo Lefeuvre, and Pierre Olivier. 2025. µFork: Supporting POSIX fork Within a Single-Address-Space OS. In ACMSIGOPS 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '25)

Software Compartmentalization Trade-Offs with Hardware Capabilities

John Alistair Kressel, Hugo Lefeuvre, Pierre Olivier. 2023. Software Compartmentalization Trade-Offs with Hardware Capabilities. In 12th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems(PLOS '23)

Evaluating the Impact of Optimizations for Dynamic Binary Modification on 64-bit RISC-V

John Alistair Kressel, Guillermo Callaghan, Cosmin Gorgovan, Mikel Luj ́an. 2023. Evaluating the Impact of Optimizations for Dynamic Binary Modification on 64-bit RISC-V. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS)

Talks

Teaching

Teaching experience 2

Teaching experience 1

Service and leadership

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