Luqman Aden

About

I enjoy creating and improving platforms that allow others to build upon; be they Operating Systems or developer tools like compilers. I've worked on such platforms in Windows and the Rust & Swift compilers.

Experience

• Software Engineer at Oxide Computer Company
  May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Software Engineer II at Microsoft
  Jul 2017 - May 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  Worked on the Windows VPN client and platform spanning: low-level kernel drivers, system services, private/public APIs, 3rd party plugins and a dash of UI. Also worked on Accelerated Networking for Virtual Machines on Hyper-V hosts.

• University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario)
  • Student Research Assistant
    Sep 2016 - Dec 2016 · 4 mos

    Worked with Professor Werner Dietl on pluggable type systems with Checker Framework. Implemented more detailed explanations for programs where annotations could not be inferred.

  • Student Research Assistant
    May 2016 - Aug 2016 · 4 mos

    Worked with Professor Ondřej Lhoták on performance work for the logic programming language Flix. Implemented simple PoC optimization passes: Copy Propagation, Constant Folding, Dead Code Elimination

• Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft
  Sep 2015 - Dec 2015 · 4 mos

  Worked on Microsoft Dynamics CRM and improved warm-load times for the mobile client by about 300mson desktop and almost 2s on Android & iOS.

• Compiler Engineering Intern at Apple
  Jan 2015 - Apr 2015 · 4 mos

  Worked on the Swift Performance team implementing optimizations and improving developer tools.