What do people use to get stuff done? Interviews Categories Community About Computer safety researcher Published April 13 , 2017 . developer linux researcher security My name's Kyle Kingsbury, and for reasons I've never fully understood, machines around me tend to break down in unusual ways. I'm making the best of that curse by testing distributed systems to see whether they're safe. I introduce network partitions, clock skew, and other failures, and carefully observe the system I'm testing to see whether it loses data, makes stale or invalid data visible, or allows transactions to interleave improperly. I write reports and give talks on my research, and also offer consulting and training classes at companies and conferences. In past lives I was a photographer, physics student, aikidoist, IT support person, network ops engineer, and backend developer. I've publ...