Chris Torek
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Torek is a seasoned systems engineer with four decades of experience in Unix and Unix-like environments, specializing in C, shell tooling, Python, and "little languages" such as awk and sed. He has deep expertise in OS design, real-time systems, compilers, libraries, and source-code management, and has contributed to foundational BSD work and C library components that influenced modern systems. More recently he has focused on networking, SDN, and VNFs, implementing dataplane and control-plane work in C++, Go, and improving build and DevOps workflows for projects like the Berkeley Extensible Software Switch (BESS). Based in Bellingham, WA, Chris blends low-level kernel and BSP experience with pragmatic tooling and build-system improvements, making him equally comfortable debugging drivers or streamlining complex containerized builds. An understated strength is his long history of porting and unencumbering legacy codebases, which gives him a rare perspective on maintaining and modernizing critical system software.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (82)
github10
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bash10
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git10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NetSys/bess
Jul 2017 - Jun 2020
BESS: Berkeley Extensible Software Switch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:99 commits, 76 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on improving the build process and related infrastructure for the BESS software switch. They implemented a more efficient method for downloading DPDK dependencies using Git, enabling easier updates and modifications. Further contributions included adding a verbose option to build scripts for enhanced observability and optimizing the build process within Docker containers. Additional work involved refactoring internal build processes and dependencies.
berkeleybessswitchextensible
chris3torek/scripts
Apr 2012 - Sep 2021
Contributions:102 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 6 months
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