
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
Head of Site Reliability Engineering for Data Center Light at ungleich
Site Reliability Engineering intern at Google Switzerland (Borg SRE)
Site Reliability Engineering intern at Google Switzerland (Payments SRE)
- contributed to the Student Development Team at my university (development and server administration)
- 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
web developer (front-end) at Lighting Beetle
Education
ETH Zurich, Switzerland: MSc Computer Science, focus Information Security
Thesis topic: FPGA-based line-rate packet forwarding for the SCION future Internet architecture – hardware/software co-design, work across the whole network stack, SDN (with P4); 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
- quick at absorbing information and learning new things
- system design with emphasis on reliability, security, scalability and correctness
- algorithmic skills
- languages: English (fluent), Slovak (native speaker), Czech (fluent), German (basic)
- experience giving talks about a multitude of topics in science and technology at various venues
- an ever-increasing list of programming languages, database environments, operating systems and other technologies
- 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
- Young Physicists’ Tournament, State round: 1st / gold medal in 2010, 2011, 2012