Alistair Woodman
Board Member at Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair Woodman is a seasoned technology executive and board member with over 30 years of experience shaping networking and routing products from hands-on engineering to strategic product leadership. Based in Sunnyvale, he has led large-scale product organizations at Cisco—building VoIP, carrier-grade routing and L4–7 services that drove billion-dollar revenues—and later focused on open source routing and tooling as an independent consultant and investor. He currently serves on the boards of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation and NetDEF, advocating for community-driven development around BEAM languages and FRRouting/CI workflows. Comfortable bridging deep technical detail and business strategy, he has a track record of incubating new architecture (non-stop distributed routing) and shepherding standards adoption across global carriers. His academic background spans physics, robotics and data communications from Oxford, Imperial College and Hamburg, a blend that underpins his long-standing interest in complex systems and automation. Less obvious: he shifted from product-scale telecom systems to nurturing open-source infrastructure, combining institutional experience with grassroots community building.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
DAAD Exchange Scholarship Computer Science Robot Vision, DAAD Exchange Scholarship Computer Science Robot Vision at University of HamburgM.Sc. Industrial Robotics & Manufacturing Automation Data Communication Systems Design, M.Sc. Industrial Robotics & Manufacturing Automation Data Communication Systems Design at Imperial College LondonM.A. Natural Philosophy Physics Maths, M.A. Natural Philosophy Physics Maths at University of Oxford
Github Skills (35)
pbr10
json10
infiniband10
router10
mpls10
networking10
nfv10
electrical-engineering10
blockchain10
openflow10
bgp10
xml10
netconf10
yang10
pim10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
opensourcerouting/libyang
Oct 2020 - Apr 2025
YANG data modeling language library
Contributions:747 pushes, 1 branch, 20 tags in 4 years 6 months
yangstructural-engineeringagent-based-modelingagent-based-simulationmodeling-language
opensourcerouting/frr
Oct 2020 - Apr 2025
Free Range Routing Protocol Suite
Contributions:4770 pushes, 10 branches, 100 tags in 4 years 6 months
infinibandospfnfvbgprouting
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