David Coffill
Software Engineer at Arista Networks
Goleta, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Coffill is a software engineer at Arista Networks in Goleta, California, with 11 years of experience in operating systems, distributed systems, and networking. On Arista's platforms team, he helped bring up the Arista 7300X3 modular chassis based on Trident 3 chips and is a key driver of Layer 3/IP routing on Trident 4, coordinating with teams in North America and Bangalore. As the North America maintenance lead for Layer 3/Unicast on Broadcom StrataXGS platforms, he leads a 12-person engineering team to maintain test throughput, triage bugs, and ensure timely releases. His graduate research at UCSB focused on safe, memory-safe operating systems, including a Rust-based microkernel project called Sprocket and an ontology of unsafe kernel usage. He is actively involved in university recruiting and has completed internships at Arista Networks, Workday, and OSIsoft, illustrating a strong blend of production impact and talent development. Based in Goleta, California, he holds a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UCSB (with prior studies at The University of Edinburgh), and combines academic curiosity with hands-on engineering across backend, systems, and IoT.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of EdinburghUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (9)
tcp7
embedded7
z807
constexpr6
gps6
struct6
gps-tracking4
rust4
android4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dcoffill/myTrack
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 months
androidtrackinggpsgps-trackingtracking-app
dcoffill/z80emu
Aug 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 20 PRs, 43 pushes in 11 months
z80emulatorz80-emulator
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