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Akshit Gaur

@akshitgaur

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I build high-performance Rust kernels, schedulers, and machine learning systems.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build high-performance systems software, especially kernels, schedulers, and Rust-based infrastructure, while contributing to ambitious open-source projects and deepening my operating systems expertise.

At Redox OS, I build Rust microkernel scheduling infrastructure and performance tooling. I replaced the legacy Round-Robin scheduler with Interleaved DWRR, improving context-switch throughput by 48% and interactive framerates by 15% under heavy CPU contention.

I then architected an EEVDF scheduler with per-core runqueues and dynamic work-stealing, eliminating O(N) linear scans. The implementation delivered a 782x improvement in fairness variance, an 82% reduction in context-switch latency, and 2.6x throughput over the DWRR baseline.

Alongside systems work, I implement ONNX operators and Depth Anything V3 in Rust with Burn, and document xv6-RISCV internals including spinlocks, AMOSWAP, Sv39 paging, and multicore boot.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Kernel Engineer / RSoC Developer

Current

Redox OS

Jan 2026 - Present (7 months)

Ported benchmarking suites and developed schedrs and sched-sim to establish kernel performance baselines. Replaced the legacy scheduler with Interleaved DWRR and later EEVDF, achieving significant improvements in context-switch throughput, fairness, and latency.

Rust Schedulers Benchmarking Performance Optimization DWRR Work Stealing Kernel Development

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering

2023 -

Grade: 8.13/10.0

Pursuing a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering with a current CGPA of 8.13/10.0. Coursework includes Operating Systems, Compiler Design, Machine Learning, and Data Structures & Algorithms.