Kamila Součková
I identify problems in systems before they eat your time, your product, and your dog.Work Experience
Research Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer at Network Security Group, ETH Zurich:
design and operations of the SCIONLab global research network; work on high-performance network applications
Lead Site Reliability Engineer for Data Center Light at ungleich:
VM cluster design and operation (Ceph distributed filesystem, OpenNebula virtualization manager, Prometheus monitoring)
Site Reliability Engineering intern at Google Switzerland (summer 2014 Payments SRE, summer 2015 Borg SRE)
- contributed to the Student Development Team at my university – full-stack web development; ops
- designed and developed the backend of an in-house solution for an RFID-based access control system – Project Deadlock
- server administrator for Trojsten – Linux and FreeBSD servers with diverse uses
software engineer at MicroStep - MIS – meteorological data visualisation
web developer (front-end) at Lighting Beetle
Education
ETH Zurich, Switzerland: MSc Computer Science, focus Information Security
Thesis: FPGA-based line-rate packet forwarding for the SCION future Internet architecture – hardware/software co-design, work across the whole network stack, software-defined networking; achieved 40Gbps throughput
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Slovakia: BSc Computer Science
Notable project: learned more about how operating systems work by making one from scratch - chaOS
Skills
- not intimidated by unfamiliar complex systems, enjoys diving into them
- able to combine theoretical understanding and practical skills
- enjoys system design with emphasis on reliability, security, scalability, maintainability and correctness
- languages: English (fluent), Slovak (native speaker), Czech (fluent), German (intermediate)
- experience giving talks about a multitude of topics in science and technology at various venues, notably FOSDEM 2020
- an ever-increasing list of programming languages, database environments, operating systems and other technologies
- many open-source contributions (code, outreach, education), notably presence in the FreeBSD community: outreach, talks, workshops, contributed a device driver
- I know regular expressions!
Select Awards and Achievements
- International Young Physicists’ Tournament: silver medal in 2013, 2011, 2010; bronze medal in 2012
- Internet Problem Solving Contest: 26th among high-school teams in 2012; 17th among 1-member high-school teams in 2011
- Correspondence Seminar in Programming, category T (elite): 1st in 2012, 2013