Dave Tucker
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Taunton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Tucker is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and infrastructure architect with over a decade of experience building production networking and container platforms, currently shaping OpenShift Core Networking at Red Hat. He co-founded SocketPlane (acquired by Docker) and originated bpfman, taking it to CNCF Sandbox, and is a maintainer of the Rust eBPF library Aya—demonstrating rare hands-on expertise in eBPF, container networking, and productization. His background spans network engineering, product management, and startup leadership, which he leverages to translate high-level requirements into pragmatic designs and cross-discipline collaboration. Known for driving performance and scalability work on OVN-Kubernetes and leading DevOps transformations at Docker, he now has a growing focus on AI inference infrastructure and sustainability in engineering. Based in Taunton, UK, he combines entrepreneurial curiosity with a track record of turning research and prototypes into deployable, long-lived open source and commercial systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
HNC, IT Systems Support, HNC, IT Systems Support at Stoke College
English, German
Github Skills (17)
discord10
playlists10
youtube10
discord-bot10
music10
java9
soundcloud9
zwave6
driver5
home-automation4
usb3
mqtt3
makefile3
rpm2
linux1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Tierran/ironclaw-diceroller
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
Discord bot to support playing Ironclaw.
Contributions:6 releases, 34 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 2 months
discord-bot
Tierran/home-automation-rules
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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