| First Name | Willem |
| Surname | de Bruijn |
| Office | Computer Science Department 4141 Upson Hall Cornell University Ithacy, NY, 14850 |
| Mobile Phone | +1 607 280 5555 |
| willem.j.debruijn at GMail | |
| Date of Birth | September 7th, 1979 |
| Place of Birth | Gent, Belgium |
| Nationality | dutch |
| Aug 2009 | Post doctoral research associate at Cornell University. Contributing to the Nexus Operating System research project. | |
| Jan 2009 | Jan 2009 | Lecturer, teaching an intensive course in Internet Technology at the Osei II Institute for Advanced ICT Studies in Kumasi, Ghana, in the context of a Vrije University program. |
| Aug 2004 | Jul 2009 | PhD student in Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Specializing in operating system I/O (project details). |
| Nov 2007 | Jan 2008 | R&D intern at VMWare in Palo Alto, CA, joining the ESX kernel networking group. I profiled the stable network stack and 4 speculative prototypes. |
| Sep 2006 | Dec 2006 | Engineering intern at Google in Mountainview, CA, joining the Enterprise team. I worked on appliance security and virtualization. |
| Jan 2004 | Jul 2004 | Postgraduate researcher at the Computer Science department of Leiden University (LIACS). Working on the Fairly Fast Packet Filter for the EU funded SCAMPI project. |
| Sep 2003 | Oct 2003 | Visiting scholar at the Distributed Systems Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Design and prototyping of an expert system for automatic protocol-construction, within the APNet project. |
| Sep 2000 | May 2003 | Teaching assistant at the Computer Science department of Leiden University (LIACS) for the courses 'File-organization and Databases', 'Requirements Analysis', 'Computer Architecture','Compiler Construction', 'AI and Gaming' and 'Interconnection Networks'. |
| Sep 1997 | Jun 2003 | Combined Computer Science BSc and MSc program at Leiden University. Obtained Master of Science (MSc) degree. |
| Sep 1991 | Jun 1997 | Fulltime Pre-university Education program ('VWO') at Zeldenrustcollege, Terneuzen. |
"FFPF: Fairly Fast Packet Filters",
OSDI 2004
"Beltway Buffers: Avoiding the OS traffic jam",
INFOCOM 2008
"SafeCard: a Gigabit IPS on the network card",
RAID 2006
| Development | C, Python, Prolog, Make |
| Networking | TCP/IP, Network Processors (IXP), HTTP, SNMP |
| Operating Systems | Linux kernel (2.4, 2.6), Posix, homegrown OS |
| Web Development | PHP, (X)HTML, DOM, CSS, XML & XSLt, RDF & OWL |
| Databases | ER Modeling, rDBMS design, SQL, ODBC |
| Language | Active | Passive | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch | excellent | excellent | native speaker |
| English | very good | excellent | TOEFL test, scoring 280 out of 300 computer-based, taken in 2001 |
| French | moderate | reasonable | High school exam scoring 8 out of 10, Niveau 3 course at the cultural institute of France in the Netherlands |
This document was last updated on November 14th, 2009.