Brenden Blanco
Staff Engineer at VMware
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrenden Blanco is a Staff Engineer in Sunnyvale with 11 years of systems and networking software experience, currently designing scalable platform components at VMware. He has deep kernel and dataplane expertise—pioneering BPF/XDP work at PLUMgrid that drove multi-million pps packet processing and contributing to prominent open-source projects like iovisor/bcc, pyroute2, and vishvananda/netlink. His background spans low-level C and LLVM work, Go and Python tooling, and building distributed network operating systems, REST frontends, and compilers for dataplane apps. Known for diagnosing live production outages and shipping performant kernel and networking fixes, he blends research-grade systems knowledge with production engineering rigor. An often-unseen strength is his ability to port runtime concepts across languages—evidenced by a fiber/lightweight thread library ported from Go to C++. Based in Silicon Valley, he brings both deep protocol-level insight and practical product delivery experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
python10
ebpf10
llvm10
net10
linux10
packet10
c1110
networking10
bpf10
c1710
go10
filter10
netlink10
network10
system-programming9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
iovisor/bcc
Apr 2015 - May 2019
BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 630 commits, 534 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brenden primarily focused on back-end development tasks, particularly within the context of Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) tools and the Linux kernel. The contributions involve implementing new features by modifying existing source code to interact with and analyze network traffic and related processes through a series of BPF programs. The user’s work touches on the use of C and LLVM infrastructure.
bpflinuxmonitoringnetworking
vishvananda/netlink
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
Simple netlink library for go.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Brenden primarily contributed to the `netlink` library, focusing on enhancements and new feature implementations. Their work involved adding support for various features, including `LinkSubscribe`, BPF TcAction support to U32 filters, and the clsact qdisc. The user also added support for XDP set/get of a bpf program. They also fixed issues such as invalidating the NetlinkSocket fd after close.
gonetlink
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