Jitu Das
● Runlevel: Ring 0 Bare-metal Rust No OS, No Syscalls

Jitu Das

Systems Engineer & Unikernel Architect

I build bare-metal systems, custom hypervisors, and zero-overhead runtimes. This entire website is compiled into a single-address-space binary and served directly by a custom Rust webserver running on a virtualized hypervisor.

About Me

I focus on stripping away abstraction layers to build software that talks directly to the hardware. By replacing general-purpose operating systems with single-purpose unikernels, I aim to achieve the maximum possible security, execution speed, and predictability for cloud services.

My work spans early Assembly bootloaders, custom paging configurations, lock-free queue drivers, and from-scratch protocol implementations (like TCP/IP, TLS 1.3, and QUIC/HTTP/3). I believe the best way to understand a system is to build it from the raw interrupt vectors up.

Projects

Rust Assembly VirtIO

Rust Unikernel

A bootable, single-binary operating system substrate. Includes early paging tables, per-CPU initialization, cooperative multi-core scheduling, and native VirtIO/gVNIC network card drivers.

Rust TCP/IP TLS 1.3

Custom TCP/IP & TLS Webserver

A high-performance webserver executing in the unikernel. Implements a from-scratch TCP stack with O(1) flow lookups, zero-copy buffer transfers, and a hand-rolled TLS 1.3 handshake using audited cryptographic primitives.

Bazel Bzlmod QEMU

Bzlmod Monorepo & Deployment

A robust Bzlmod setup compiling bare-metal targets and native runtimes under a single dependency graph. Automated GCE image deployment pipelines with UEFI/BIOS multi-boot integration.

Skills & Expertise

Languages

Rust C x86_64 Assembly AArch64 Assembly Python Go

Low-Level & Kernel

Unikernel Architecture OS Kernel Design Page Tables & Paging Interrupt Handlers SMP Multicore Boot APIC / GICv3 VirtIO / PCI Bus

Networking

TCP/IP Stack Dev TLS 1.3 Specification UDP socket runtimes DHCP Client ARP / NDP / SLAAC gVNIC Driver Dev

Tools & Virtualization

Bazel / Bzlmod QEMU / KVM Apple Hypervisor (HVF) Limine Bootloader Google Compute Engine GCS / gsutil

Get in Touch

Interested in bare-metal systems, unikernels, or performance engineering? Let's connect.