I’ve been hacking on systems for as long as I can remember. Family legend has it that at age three, I was frequently found staring at fuse boxes just to “see how the electricity worked”. Luckily, I survived that phase, but that curiosity with digging into the black box never left me.

Today, I channel that curiosity into the Java Virtual Machine.

I am currently a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle and a PhD Candidate at Uppsala University. My work sits right at the intersection of academic theory and production engineering. Instead of just tuning applications, I work inside the engine itself—contributing to the OpenJDK HotSpot mainline.

I spend my days questioning how we measure performance, fighting for efficiency in cloud-scale environments, and ensuring that the high-level abstractions of modern programming languages actually run efficiently on real hardware.