Andy Belk

In charge of a team of engineers responsible for the Apple TV platform and playback.

Manager of Sync Services group, responsible for the underlying framework used on Mac OS X for synchronization of information between Macs, PCs and devices, such as iPhones, iPads, PDAs and cellphones, and MobileMe, plus and file syncing using iDisk and Mobile Homes.

Azul built the first "Network Attached Processing" Java appliance targeted at the J2EE market: custom CPU, custom kernel & HotSpot Java Virtual Machine - massive SMP (up to 384 cores): http://www.azulsystems.comDesign and implementation of JVM-kernel system call interface, network and I/O interfaces. Implementation of said interfaces in system simulator/debugger (based on gdb). Design and implementation of user-level thread API, mutex and condition variables. Ported Hotspot OS-specific code to Azul OS system interface and Azul CPU architecture, including synchronization code. Port of J2SE to the Azul CPU/OS architecture, including port of JDK, AWT, X11 and Motif. Partial maintenance of ported libc. Implementation of POSIX-lite I/O layer atop our remote I/O mechanism. Wrote simple ELF symbol-to-address mapping code to emulate dynamic symbol lookup in a statically linked binary. Worked on user-level caching file system layer and reduction of memory footprint (thread stacks).

Worked on the LEP control system. Developed low-level system for controlling the accelerator magnets during ramp, coast and squeze.Developed prototype software for fine-tuning of beam angle at intersection points via feedback.

Worked primarily on ALEPH experiment Data Acquisition System (software, VAX, Real-time OS). Thesis was on measuring production cross-section of K0 mesons at 92GeV (LEP energies).

Activité externe: Lots of skiing ...