David Miller
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat Inc.
Ealing, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Miller is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat with 26 years of experience building and refining low-level networking and kernel code. Based in Ealing, England, he brings deep expertise in Linux networking—evidenced by contributions to the torvalds/linux tree improving XPCS driver maintainability—and practical performance work such as enabling GRO support in networking projects. He combines a magazine-editor’s eye for clarity with hands-on systems engineering, regularly simplifying complex kernel structures and renaming APIs for better developer ergonomics. A long-tenured Red Hat engineer, he navigates the intersection of production reliability and clean, maintainable open-source code.
26 years of coding experience
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Github Skills (19)
net10
wireless10
c-programming10
c1110
linux-kernel10
networking10
c1710
kernel10
w-net10
driver10
device-driver10
ipv610
pam10
wifi10
routers9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
torvalds/linux
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Linux kernel source tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the Linux kernel's network subsystem, specifically focusing on the Digital Power over Coax (XPCS) driver within the net/pcs directory. Their work involved code cleanup tasks, including removing unused elements and simplifying existing structures. The user also introduced enhancements, such as providing a helper to convert an XPCS structure to a phylink_pcs structure and renaming a function for clarity. These changes aimed to improve code maintainability and potentially enhance the driver's efficiency.
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
acorn-marvell/brillo_pxa_kernel
Mar 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:42 commits in 1 year 2 months
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