Stjepan Poljak

At dSPACE, I build custom Linux kernel and QEMU/KVM solutions for virtualized environments, including tooling like deadlock diagnosis through NMI injection, memory-based communication protocols and eBPF (kprobes).

I own platform security maintenance for Linux kernel and QEMU forks, leading CVE triage, vulnerability assessment, patch integration, and secure maintenance workflows. I've also improved KVM/QEMU synchronization and virtual networking reliability through low-level debugging, refactoring and concurrency analysis.

Previously at Ericsson, I developed Linux diagnostics, stress-testing infrastructure, custom IPC and dump-collection systems for ARM-based 5G telecom environments. I maintained Yocto-based Linux distributions and investigated PreemptRT latency, kernel performance, debugged driver behavior and network security issues.

I'm especially interested in Linux internals, reverse-engineering, systems debugging, virtualization and low-level software architecture, including personal experimentation with KVM in Rust (able to boot Linux on ARM64 boards supporting virtualization) along with operating systems on ARM and x86.