Chris Sommers
Co-Chair, Ultra Ethernet Consortium Performance And Debug Working Group at P4.org
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Sommers is a seasoned systems architect and engineer in California with decades of end-to-end HW and SW experience, now focused on terabit-scale network visibility, packet test and P4-based dataplane implementations. He blends deep hardware design roots with hands-on software development (C/C++, Python, eBPF, P4) and has a track record of translating high-level requirements into shipped products across embedded, cloud and data-plane domains. A pragmatic leader who has run engineering organizations up to VP level and now serves as Co-Chair of industry groups (Ultra Ethernet Consortium and P4.org), he routinely bridges customers, standards bodies and open-source communities. Known for rapid prototyping and continuous integration, he combines low-level integration skill with strategic product vision and still finds time to raise cattle and sheep.
8 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoBishop O'Dowd High School
Github Skills (105)
docker-machine10
switch10
abstraction10
specification10
starlark10
api10
netbox10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
network-automation10
p4lang10
sonic10
sdn10
s610
virtual-network10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
chrispsommers/DASH
Oct 2021 - Aug 2023
Disaggregated APIs for SONiC Hosts
Contributions:1 PR, 496 pushes, 154 branches in 1 year 11 months
hostssonic
chrispsommers/bcc
Aug 2021 - Sep 2024
BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
bpfbcclinuxnetworkingmonitoring
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