Xen Community Spotlight

Mark Williamson, Cambridge University

Mark graduated with a BA in computer science from Cambridge University in 2003. He first began hacking on Xen during an internship at Intel Research Cambridge the following year. He is now working towards a PhD in the Systems Research Group at Cambridge University, whilst providing consulting services for XenSource. He has been involved with a number of major Xen projects, including the Xen 2.0 device driver model, USB virtualisation support, and various control tools functionality. He has also provided an implementation of kexec for Xen guests, worked on rapid deployment of template virtual machine images and enhanced the Mercurial revision control system used by the project. He also takes an advisory and review role for features being added to the Xen codebase. He is currently implementing a flexible virtualisation-aware shared-memory filesystem called XenFS, and associated services for leveraging its functionality.

In his spare time, Mark enjoys playing guitar, sailing, extreme sports and long distance unicycling.