Colin Dixon
Software Engineer at Meta
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Dixon is a software engineer and computer systems researcher with 12 years of experience building secure, reliable, and efficient systems across networks, distributed systems, operating systems, and security. Currently at Meta, he brings a research-driven approach to production engineering, informed by prior roles as a distinguished engineer at Brocade and research staff at IBM where he led data center networking projects. He has deep open-source and community leadership experience from chairing the OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee and serving as an ambassador to the project. An academic foundation with an MS and PhD from the University of Washington and dual BS degrees in Math and Computer Science from Maryland underpins his work in measurement, DDoS mitigation, and large-scale content distribution. Colin combines hands-on implementation skill with systems-level thinking, favoring practical, deployable solutions rather than purely theoretical designs. Based in Washington, D.C., he blends industry-scale impact with a history of mentoring and community stewardship that helps translate research into production-ready technologies.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of WashingtonWalt Whitman High SchoolB.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at University of Maryland
Github Skills (33)
controller10
sphinx10
gerrit10
java10
opendaylight10
java-api10
usability10
yang10
documentation10
mkdocs9
sphinx-doc9
markdown9
python9
streaming9
netconf9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nilok/odlutils
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
CMSC417-Spring16/CMSC417-Spring16.github.io
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 comment in 3 months
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