Brussels / 1 & 2 February 2025

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Charalampos Mainas

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Charalampos (Babis) Mainas is a systems engineer, mostly interested in the lower levels of the systems stack, mainly in Hypervisor and OS level, where he can easily create kernel oops. He had the chance to dive into the two most well-used hypervisors (KVM, Xen). Morevoer, he started exploring the area of hardware acceleration in order to provide an efficient and secure virtualization solution for devices (GPUs, FPGAs).

A significant part of his time has been spent in Unikernels, porting applications, libraries, language runtimes, and in general, trying to make them more friendly and adaptable to the real world. In the past year, he started working in the level of container runtimes and container building technologies, where he mostly focuses on the intersection of unikernel with the container ecosystem (building and deployment).


Events

Title Day Room Track Start End
Less overhead, strong isolation: Running containers in minimal specialized Linux VMs
Saturday UD2.218A Containers 17:20 17:40
WASM meets unikernels: Secure and Efficient Cloud-Native Deployments
Sunday K.4.601 WebAssembly 10:00 10:25