Bob Lantz
Hewlett Packard Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Lantz is a seasoned researcher-engineer with 17 years building and shaping networked computing systems, now leading work at Hewlett Packard Labs. He created Mininet and continues to drive SDN progress as tech lead for Mininet-Optical and a contributor to OpenFlow, ONOS and FAUCET, bringing deep expertise in emulation, controllers, and cluster orchestration. His hands-on open source work spans developer, DevOps and test automation roles—improving CI/CD, migrating tests to Python 3, and hardening integration testing for widely used projects like FAUCET and ONOS. An ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time and SOSR awardee, he combines academic rigor (PhD-level training from Stanford) with practical system architecture and reproducibility initiatives that quietly underpin modern SDN research and tooling.
16 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Stanford University
Github Skills (18)
network-configuration10
docker10
python10
linux10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
mininet10
iptables10
onos10
openflow10
system-administration10
test-automation10
sdn9
github-ci9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
faucetsdn/faucet
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
FAUCET is an OpenFlow controller for multi table OpenFlow 1.3 switches, that implements layer 2 switching, VLANs, ACLs, and layer 3 IPv4 and IPv6 routing.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 33 PRs, 71 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the testing infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline for the FAUCET SDN controller. Their work involved restructuring and reorganizing test scripts, migrating integration tests to Python 3, and implementing timing and profiling features for the tests. They also addressed pylint issues, improved the test environment setup, and added functionality to test various aspects of the controller.
faucet-sdncontrolleripv4sdn-controllersdn
opennetworkinglab/onos
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Open Network Operating System
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:37 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily focused on developing and maintaining the infrastructure and build processes for the ONOS project within a Mininet environment. They implemented port forwarding using `iptables`, addressing networking issues, and improved the startup and management of ONOS clusters. The contributions involved adding features for improved network control and debugging, and optimizing existing Mininet configurations. The user also made architectural improvements by enhancing the overall system design.
ospfopenflowbazeloperating-systemnfv
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