Alok Menghrajani
Currently: security consulting and lecturer.
Previously: security engineering at Square Block. Co-author of Hack (the programming language) and put the 's' in https at Facebook Meta. Maker of various CTF puzzles.
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As part of 15213 (introduction to computer systems), I implemented malloc (a memory allocator).
We were free to design the routines as we wish. I used an implicit free list and a combination of first fit and best fit to place the blocks.