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Speaker: Adin Scannell
Software Engineer @Google
Adin Scannell is a Software Engineer at Google, where he leads the gVisor team and focuses on container security and isolation. Adin has been virtualizing things for a while: he was previously co-founder and CTO at Gridcentric, which pioneered rapid virtual machine cloning technology and was acquired by Google. Secretly from Canada, he graduated with a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo before triumphantly dropping out of a PhD program at the University of Toronto, where he pursued operating systems and virtualization research.