Work Experience
Principal Software Engineer
October 2021 - present
- Overall Technical Lead for operational management systems for Google WAN
- Technical Lead for Internet routing security and safety
- Director, WAN Traffic Control Systems (through July 2022)
Senior Staff Engineer
December 2016 - October 2021
- Technical Lead and Manager, WAN Traffic Control Systems (starting June 2021)
- Technical Lead and Manager, Network management and route analytics
Staff Network Architect
January 2014 - November 2016
- Technical Lead and Manager, Network management architecture
- Founder of the OpenConfig industry project to develop vendor-neutral network management interfaces and tools
IBM
Chief SDN Architect, IBM System Networking
January 2013 - January 2014
- Technical strategy, architecture, and development for IBM software-defined networking (SDN) products
- Technical Lead for IBM's founding of the OpenDaylight SDN project (now a Linux Foundation project)
Research Staff Member and Manager, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
July 1999 - December 2012
- Systems Research Division (Jan 2011 – Dec 2012) -- Started and led the global SDN research program.
- Services Research Division (Dec 2005 – Dec 2010) -- technologies in support of IBM Global Technology Services and early cloud computing platforms
- Software Research Division (Jul 1999 – Nov 2005) -- applied research in CDNs, Web/Internet measurement, route control, and online games infrastructure
Education
- • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999
- • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1994
- • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1994