Carl Baldwin
Staff Engineer at CoreWeave
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCarl Baldwin is a Staff Engineer with 12+ years building high-performance, scalable networking and distributed systems, currently focused on virtual networking and datapath performance at CoreWeave and DigitalOcean. He is a polyglot practitioner who prefers Rust, Python, Bash, and Go, and has hands-on experience from kernel-bypass eBPF datapaths to control-plane orchestration and EVPN/VXLAN migrations. Carl has led large technical teams and executed fleet-wide transitions—unlocking millions in IP utilization, improving metadata proxy reliability to nearly 100%, and enabling high-bandwidth storage access for GPU workloads. An active contributor to open-source networking (notably fixing concurrency and test robustness in the widely used gobgp project), he combines deep L2–L4 protocol knowledge with pragmatic system design for availability and observability. He thrives on highly technical, challenging problems where clear direction and autonomy let him move from algorithmic design to production-grade, fault-tolerant deployments. Based in Fort Collins, CO, he pairs an MS in Electrical Engineering with a track record of shipping complex, measurable improvements across cloud and telecom-scale infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Science Electrical Engineering at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
Portuguese
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Github Skills (12)
bgp10
go10
concurrency10
testing10
python9
configuration-management7
sdn6
jquery-ui6
openvswitch6
mininet6
ryu6
yaml6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
osrg/gobgp
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
BGP implemented in the Go Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:31 commits, 19 PRs, 51 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Carl contributed to the `gobgp` project by addressing concurrency issues and improving the test suite. They fixed a deadlock situation by releasing read locks before calling `llgrFamilies`, which prevents other goroutines from being blocked. Additionally, the user enhanced the Python tests by replacing `assertTrue` calls with `assertEqual` to provide more informative error messages. Further contributions included code consolidation, refactoring, and improvements to the configuration loading process.
golangprogramming-languagebgpsdn
ecbaldwin/frhs.soccer
Dec 2019 - May 2023
Source for the frhs.soccer website
Contributions:289 PRs, 261 pushes, 310 branches in 3 years 5 months
soccer
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