Emir Beganović
Head of Infrastructure at Omarchy since October 2026, leading the infrastructure that builds, tests and ships Omarchy across more hardware and architectures.
Founder of Isorun, a hardware-isolated microVM runtime for AI agents. Previously almost seven years in SRE at Booking.com, leading build systems and CI.
Mostly interested in the Linux kernel, virtualization, boot and build systems. Linux user and open source contributor for more than twenty years.
Based in Amsterdam.
Projects
- Isorun: Sandboxes in milliseconds. Fully isolated Linux microVMs from any Docker image, with fork, hibernate/resume, snapshot/restore, public URLs and per-second billing. Launched June 2026. Docs · TypeScript SDK
- kernelbuild-buildkit: A BuildKit frontend that builds reproducible Linux kernels from a
Kernelfilewith stockdocker build. Artifacts boot directly in Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor. Go, MIT. Released September 2026. - Try Omarchy: Omarchy Linux with a Hyprland desktop, running in your browser. A fresh machine per visitor, streamed as H.264 over WebSocket and decoded with WebCodecs, built on Cloudflare Containers. No install, no account. It started the conversation that brought me to Omarchy.
- ocicdn.net: Free global pull-through cache for every public OCI registry (Docker Hub, GHCR, Quay, registry.k8s.io, GCR, MCR), built on Cloudflare Workers and R2. No account, no setup, free forever.
- gitdelivr.net: CDN for public Git repositories.
Writing
- October 2026: I’m joining Omarchy!: why I joined Omarchy as Head of Infrastructure
- June 2026: From Sarajevo internet cafés to 100,000 agent sandboxes: why I’m building the laptop for AI agents: the Isorun launch story
- March 2026: Your Container Is Not a Sandbox: The State of MicroVM Isolation in 2026
- August 2019, APNIC: Analysing global CDN performance
- August 2019, RIPE Labs: Analysing global CDN performance
- August 2019, infoq.cn: In pursuit of speed, we tested all CDNs worldwide (Chinese)
- June 2019: Analysing global CDN performance
- March 2019: Microservices in Go
- April 2018, Blackfire.io: Road to Blackfire.io presentation: organising the meetup
Talks
- October 2026, SREcon26 EMEA, Dublin: When Partitioning Beats Sharing: Ephemeral MicroVMs for CI at Scale, with Luka Stout (video, slides)
- October 2021, Google Next ‘21: How Booking.com uses Apigee on Anthos to enhance the customer’s experience (video)
- April 2019, RIPE SEE 8: Analysing Global CDN Performance using RIPE Atlas (video)
- April 2019, RIPE SEE 8: Importance of Local Content (video)
- April 2018, ViennaPHP: Profiling and inspection with Blackfire (slides)
- November 2017, ViennaPHP: Static code analysis in PHP (slides)
- September 2011, RIPE SEE 1: Starting An Internet Exchange Point: Lessons learnt (video, slides)