Bruce Mah
Software Engineer at Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Lafayette, California, United States
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Top SchoolBruce Mah is a software engineer with 25 years of experience based in Lafayette, California, and is currently building network and systems software at Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). He brings deep expertise in networking and backend engineering from senior roles at Packet Design, Cisco, Sandia, and as a longtime FreeBSD committer. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable contributions to the widely used iperf3 tool—adding daemonization, IPv6 flow-label support, TCP congestion-control options, and robustness fixes including a buffer-overflow prevention. He is known for pragmatic, protocol-aware engineering that balances performance with correctness and edge-case hardening. He also holds advanced degrees from UC Berkeley and applies research-grade rigor to production network measurement and infrastructure tools.
25 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MS, PhD, BS, MS, PhD at University of California, BerkeleyHoover High School
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Github Skills (19)
system-programming10
ip10
c-programming10
networking10
tcp10
freebsd9
linux9
multi-threading8
error-handling8
json8
sctp8
debugging7
debug7
stream6
sockets6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
esnet/iperf
Nov 2013 - Dec 2022
iperf3: A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 reviews, 969 commits, 474 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bruce implemented features related to daemonization support and IPv6 flow label configuration within the iperf3 codebase. Their work included modifications to existing code to add command-line options, error handling, and code to set TCP congestion control algorithms. The user also made contributions to improve the management and display of server-side output and applied code improvements, including fixing a potential buffer overflow, and handling edge cases involving file operations and timing in tests.
iperf3networkingbandwidthmeasurementsctp
bmah888/gotesla
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
Tesla API client library and utilities written in Go
Contributions:60 commits, 26 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 years 10 months
golangapiapi-clientclient-librarytesla-api
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