# Samuel Jacob

> ChromeOS TLM

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samueljacob

★ In-depth knowledge in OS design and implementation.
★ Hacked various kernels - FreeBSD, VMware ESXi, Juniper uKernel, Tru64 and HPUX.
★ Experience with of various processor architectures - x86, PowerPC, Alpha and Itanium.
★ Good understanding of internals of debuggers and compilers.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Senior SDE @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Cupertino, CA
► Designed and developed high performance hardware-software interface such as kernel driver, runtime library for Inferentia chip.
► Created toolchains such as assembler and debugger, profiler for SoC.

### Staff Engineer 2 @ VMware
Jan 2011 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA
►Created APIs to expose ESX core networking infrastructure to third party kernel modules.
►Created upgradable(without reboot) virtual switch.
►Designed an interface to performance of firewall interface by 10x.
►Maintained hardware and kernel layers of ESX.

### Member Technical Staff @ Juniper Networks
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
►Developed platform for a cellsite router which involves board bringup, writing kernel and designing IPC mechanism between multiple systems.
►Worked on JUNOS kernel infrastructure.

### System Software Specialist @ Hewlett-Packard
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009
► Worked on Tru64 kernel and HPUX
► Created a kernel dump analyzer tool and  "Alpha" disassembler

### Team Lead @ Photon Infotech
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
►Created a GPS module for Windows 2003 mobile platform
►Created a data synchronization application to connect two different databases
►Created dynamic reporting tool using Microsoft Reporting Services


## Education
### Masters in Computer Applications in Computer Programming, Specific Applications
Alagappa University

### Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
VOC College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samueldotj
- Portfolio: http://www.samueldotj.com
- Portfolio: http://samueldotj.com/blog

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Last updated: 2026-04-12