Damu Ding
P4 Networking Software Engineer at Cisco
Milpitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamu Ding is a P4 networking software engineer with a decade of R&D experience in network programmability, SDN, and data center networking, currently developing P4-programmable ASIC features for Cisco Silicon One. His background blends academic rigor—a PhD focused on programmable switches and DDoS/INT use cases—with hands-on industry work implementing enhanced RDMA protocols and CI-integrated test suites for AI-NICs and hybrid programmable platforms at ByteDance. He has led vulnerability and energy-efficiency studies on devices like Intel Tofino, NVIDIA Spectrum, and BlueField DPUs during a postdoc at Oxford and contributed to European research projects on sustainable and secure edge networking. Known for translating research into deployable validation frameworks and performance-tuned prototypes, he published work on WAN bandwidth sharing using P4 and has a track record coordinating multi-institution experiments across Europe. Based in Milpitas, CA, Damu combines deep protocol-level expertise with practical CI/CD and test automation skills that accelerate safe, programmable networking deployments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Telecommunications Engineering, Master's degree Telecommunications Engineering at Università di TrentoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electronics Telecommunications and Information Technologies Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electronics Telecommunications and Information Technologies Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaBachelor's degree Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Telecommunications Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Github Skills (23)
wifi9
raspberry8
sonic7
4g7
openflow7
ospf7
raspberry-pi6
telemetry6
armv66
sdn6
networking5
nfv4
operating-system4
bazel3
bgp3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DINGDAMU/P4LogLog
Jan 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
DINGDAMU/P4NEntropy
Jan 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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