About

Imperial MSc Advanced Computing graduate, interested in systems engineering and forward-deployed positions, looking for a role in London, Amsterdam or Prague.

I finished my MSc in Advanced Computing at Imperial in September 2026. I'm interested in systems engineering and performance work, and that interest got specific during the Networked Systems course, where I was introduced to eBPF and DPDK and wanted to keep going. So I did my master's thesis in that area. AccNet lets an unmodified application skip the Linux network stack: eBPF intercepts its socket system calls and hands the data to a DPDK transport. Most of the work was in the gap between what the application expects from a socket and what a bypass can give it without the application noticing. That's the kind of problem I want to keep working on.

Before Imperial I did my BSc in Computer Science at VU Amsterdam (Honours Programme, cum laude, GLOBE Scholarship), with an exchange semester at HKUST. I spent three summers at MicroStep in Bratislava, the first on data analysis and the next two writing software for CNC machine automation.

I'm looking for a graduate or junior role in London, Amsterdam or Prague. Two kinds interest me: a networking, kernel, performance or cloud-infrastructure team, or a forward-deployed engineering role. I like working directly with clients, and I like learning new things, which forward-deployed work is full of.

Outside work I play football and tennis.

Tomáš Buša
Based in
London
Open to
London, Amsterdam, Prague
Citizenship
EU (Slovak)
UK status
Eligible for Graduate Visa
Languages
Slovak, English, Czech
Supervisor
Dr Marios Kogias, Imperial

Stack

Languages

  • C
  • C++
  • Python
  • Java
  • Bash

Kernel and networking

  • eBPF: cgroup hooks, ring buffers, the verifier
  • DPDK and kernel-bypass transports
  • Linux kernel modifications and kfuncs
  • Shared-memory IPC
  • Socket programming, TCP/IP internals

Tooling

  • Linux, custom kernel builds, gdb
  • Docker, Kubernetes, Azure
  • git, GitHub Actions, unit testing
  • PostgreSQL, REST APIs
  • angr, static analysis