Minsoo Choo

Minsoo Choo

Kernel Developer

Passionate about low-level systems programming, kernel development, and performance optimization. Building robust and efficient system software.

Experience

Operating System Developer Intern

FreeBSD Foundation
Kitchener, ON
2026 (Expected)
  • Led development of custom Linux kernel modules for high-performance computing
  • Optimized memory management subsystem, achieving 30% performance improvement
  • Implemented real-time scheduling policies for mission-critical applications
CAssemblyFreeBSD KernelSIMDLLDB

Ambassador

CHERI Alliance
Cambridge, England
2025 - Present
  • Promoted CHERI projects and initiatives within the developer community
  • Contributed to Working Groups for porting operating systems on CHERI
  • Collaborated on CHERI capability hardware adoption and implementation strategies
CHERIRISC-VARMFreeBSDFreeRTOSsel4Zephyr

Embedded Systems Developer

Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group
Waterloo, ON
2025 - Present
  • Migrated STM32CubeIDE (Eclipse) project to CMake project for IDE agonistic development
  • Refactored existing codebase to improve error handling
CC++FreeRTOSCMSISSTM32MISRA

Contributor

FreeBSD Project
Remote
2021 - Present
  • Implemented C23 C library headers and POSIX utilities and libraries
  • Imported latest jemalloc release into the base system
  • Contributed to handbook, website, and manual pages
CFreeBSDmandocAsciiDocjemalloc

Technical Skills

Advanced

CC++FreeBSDLinuxmacOSWindowsVirtualization

Intermediate

FreeBSD KernelLinux KernelLLDBNetwork StackRTOS

Beginner

ZigVerilogAssembly (x86/RISC-V)File SystemsDevice DriversCompiler

Awards

Euclid Contest - School Champion

CEMC, University of Waterloo
2025

Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest - School Champion

CEMC, University of Waterloo
2024

Fermat Contest - School Champion

CEMC, University of Waterloo
2024

Canadian Computing Competition (Junior Division) - First Place

CEMC, University of Waterloo
2024

CEMC Cayley Contest - School Champion

CEMC, University of Waterloo
2023

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