Bill Michalowski
Senior Software Engineer Performance Engineer at Red Hat
Ashburnham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Michalowski is a Senior Software and Performance Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and optimizing Linux-based real-time embedded systems for networking, voice processing, and telephony. He has deep expertise in kernel and user-space device drivers, high-speed packet drivers, NUMA/SMP architectures, and performance tuning across multi-core Intel platforms. At Red Hat and prior roles at Cisco and Active Broadband Networks he focused on squeezing maximum throughput and low latency from Linux networking stacks and DPDK-accelerated data planes. His background in DSP and signal processing (BSEE/MSEE) gives him a rare blend of low-level hardware-aware development and systems performance analysis. Bill frequently bridges kernel internals and application-level needs, having implemented production features from GPIO/I2C LED drivers to ISSU-capable host card drivers and frequency synchronization. Based in Massachusetts, he pairs long-term embedded systems experience with a practical focus on measurable performance gains.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Digital Signal Processing and Microwave Engineering, BSEE, Digital Signal Processing and Microwave Engineering at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MALinux Foundation ClassMSEE, Signal Processing and Communications Theory, MSEE, Signal Processing and Communications Theory at Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Github Skills (31)
altium-designer8
automation-testing7
dpdk6
lua5
rhel5
xmake5
packet5
testing5
network-tools5
network-traffic4
luajit4
traffic4
timestamping3
automation3
c993
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bmichalo/dpdk-rhel-perf-tools
Aug 2017 - Nov 2024
Tools used for automation testing of DPDK on RHEL products
Contributions:39 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 4 months
automation-testingrheltestingdpdkautomation
bmichalo/MoonGen
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
packetsdpdkconnectionmulti-corelua-scripts
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