Damian
Barabonkov.

I lead sandboxing at Prime Intellect, where I designed and built the sandboxing platform: a distributed control plane that schedules workloads across bare-metal CPU and GPU workers, and a node runtime that launches and supervises secure microVMs.

I build fault-tolerant systems in Go and Rust, working deep in Linux, virtualization, networking, storage, and performance engineering. I own the platform end to end, taking reinforcement learning and agent workloads from design to production.

Previously, I was the founding AI engineer at ellamind, building elluminate from zero to one, with earlier engineering roles at QuantCo and Facebook. I hold a BSc and MEng in Computer Science from MIT.

Selected work

• Cloud Hypervisor, contributions including userfaultfd, VFIO BAR mapping, PCIe topology, and ARM snapshotting.
• dynamic-load-bench, a memory bandwidth and latency benchmark, included in Phoronix and used at Intel.
• JS-OS, a learning project to build a Unix-like OS, with multitasking, filesystems, device drivers and a window manager.

Feel free to email me at dbctl [at] pm [dot] me.