Dario Mader
Core & Radio Network Test Engineer at Swisscom
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDario Mader is a Core & Radio Network Test Engineer at Swisscom with eight years of hands-on experience in telecom core and radio networks, having progressed through apprentice roles into a specialist engineering position. He brings practical expertise in network testing and validation combined with formal HF-level training in ICT systems and network technology. Beyond daily engineering, Dario contributes to open-source documentation for the prominent eBPF project Cilium, improving usability for edge platforms like Raspberry Pi and clarifying IPAM and Helm configuration nuances. His background reflects a blend of operational telecom know-how and a focus on making complex networking tools more accessible to practitioners.
8 years of coding experience
Informatikpraktiker, Informatikpraktiker at Gewerblich-Industrielle Berufsschule BernDIPL. TECHNIKER/IN HF INFORMATIK, ICT-System- und Netzwerktechnik, DIPL. TECHNIKER/IN HF INFORMATIK, ICT-System- und Netzwerktechnik at IFA Weiterbildung AG
English, German
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
documentation10
kubernetes-pods10
helm8
ebpf7
networking7
ip7
observability6
container6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:24 reviews, 26 PRs, 73 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Dario primarily contributed to the project by updating and adding documentation. Their work included adding documentation for running Cilium on Raspberry Pi, detailing how to change IPAM modes, adding documentation for LB-IPAM pools, and providing additional information for the Helm MTU value configuration. They also restructured the pitfalls section of the policies documentation and added notes about the `kube-apiserver` entity. This indicates a focus on improving the usability and understanding of Cilium for users.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
isovalent/terraform-gcp-vpc
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
An opinionated Terraform module that can be used to create and manage a VPC in Google Cloud Platform in a simplified way.
Contributions:2 releases, 17 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
gcpvpcgoogle-cloud-platformsimplifiedcloud-platform
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