Christopher Canel
Research Scientist at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Canel is a research scientist specializing in datacenter networking and congestion control with 11 years of systems experience, currently working on receiver-driven mitigations for unfair flows and incast microbursts at Meta. He combines a PhD-level research background from Carnegie Mellon with multiple internships and project stints at Meta/Facebook, where he has repeatedly prototyped transport-layer solutions and delay-based congestion algorithms for large-scale AI and production clusters. His prior work spans reconfigurable datacenter transport, edge ML for streaming video, and performance-first big data system architectures, reflecting a preference for practical, measurable improvements. Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings both academic rigor and production engineering discipline, and when he’s not tuning congestion windows you’re likely to find him exploring the desert.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Valhalla High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (38)
tcp-server9
tcp9
saf9
ack8
receiver8
udp8
traffic6
streaming5
mercurial5
streaming-analytics5
rdma5
checkpoint5
infiniband4
kafka4
server4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mukerjee/etalon
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:863 commits, 3 pushes, 3 tags in 10 months
emulatordatacenter
ccanel/etalon
Aug 2019 - Jun 2022
Etalon - a Reconfigurable Datacenter Network (RDCN) emulator
Contributions:79 commits, 1 PR, 437 pushes in 2 years 11 months
emulatorinfinibandtraffic-analysisnetflowtraffic
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