Victor Costan

Victor Costan

San Francisco, California, United States
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I'm a hands-on Tech Lead for Fuchsia's Display and Input Drivers team.

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Experience

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    San Francisco, CA

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    San Francisco, CA

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    Cambridge, MA

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    New York, NY

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    Cambridge, MA

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    New York, NY

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    Cambridge, MA

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    Cupertino, CA

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    Redmond, WA

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graphic

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    Activities and Societies: Teaching Assistant for MIT's Introduction to Algorithms Fall 2011 (6.006), President of MIT's IAP Web Programming Competition 2011 (6.470), Teaching Assistant for MIT's Networks Security 2010 (6.857)

    Thesis: Sanctum: Minimal Architectural Extensions for Isolated Execution -- a principled approach towards SGX-like security guarantees that can be applied to any existing architecture with minimal modifications.

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Licenses & Certifications

Projects

  • 6.006 Course Web Application

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    Designed and built the Web application used to collect and grade student submissions for MIT's 6.006 (Introduction to Algorithms) course. Maintained the site since 2008, adding new features, performing style refreshes, and keeping the coding style and dependencies updated.

    See project

  • dropbox.js

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    Designed and built the JavaScript client library for the Dropbox API.

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Honors & Awards

  • 3rd Prize

    Steve Wozniak and the LiveWorx 2015 IoT Hackathon Judges

    Awarded for a system meant to be used in an emergency situation (e.g. hurricane / tornado / tough winter) to help impacted people and first responders find places that still have vital resources (water / heat / food / electricity) or places that have no resources, but still have many people around them.

    The UI used a Google Maps and a few intuitive controls. The data was collected by Edison boards with sensors (temperature, water, etc.) attached. The number of people around a place was…

    Awarded for a system meant to be used in an emergency situation (e.g. hurricane / tornado / tough winter) to help impacted people and first responders find places that still have vital resources (water / heat / food / electricity) or places that have no resources, but still have many people around them.

    The UI used a Google Maps and a few intuitive controls. The data was collected by Edison boards with sensors (temperature, water, etc.) attached. The number of people around a place was estimated by the number of Bluetooth device MAC addresses detected by the Edison's receiver.

  • Jawbone's Special Prize

    MIT Grand Hack 2015 Committee

    Awarded for building a payment system for restaurants that records the customers' orders, and recommends healthier food options (from the same restaurant) when sending out receipts.

  • Ship It

    Dropbox Hack Week Committee

    Got the Ship It award for a developing a to-be-announced feature during Hack Week, and pushing it to production by the end of the week

  • Best Team Effort

    Dropbox Hack Week Committee

    Got the Best Team Effort award, as a member of the team that presented dropbox.js and a suite of demo applications

  • 1st prize

    GTUG (Google Technology User Group) Boston

    Awarded at the Google Chrome hackathon in Cambridge, MA, for the "Clutter" Chrome extension

  • Finalist (10th place)

    MIT 6.370 (Battlecode AI Competition) Staff

    Became a finalist in MIT's 6.370 (MIT Battlecode AI Competition). All team members were working full-time organizing another MIT class, 6.470 (the Web Programming Competition).

  • Special Recognition Award

    MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

    Awarded for contributions that helped shape MIT's 6.006 (Introduction to Algorithms) course while serving as a Teaching Assistant

  • 2nd Prize

    MIT 6.470 (Web Programming Competition) Staff

    Awarded for building a Web and Facebook application that helped users find interesting movies and set up viewings with their friends

  • 4th place (team)

    ACM ICPC (Intercollegiate Programming Competition) 2004

  • Gold medal

    IOI (International Olympiad of Informatics) 2003

  • Silver medal

    IOI (International Olympiad of Informatics) 2002

Languages

  • Romanian

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Chinese

    Limited working proficiency

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