David Schinazi
Tech Lead Manager, Senior Staff Software Engineer at IETF
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Schinazi is a tech leader and networking engineer with nine years of experience driving QUIC, MASQUE, and Privacy Proxy initiatives at Google while representing the company at IETF and W3C. He combines hands-on systems and protocol development—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Envoy and quiche—with management of cross-disciplinary teams to deliver production-ready networking features. A long-standing IETF participant and former IAB member who chairs working groups on WebTransport and bot authentication, he blends standards strategy with practical implementation. His background includes low-level networking work at Apple and research at UC Berkeley, and he’s also an LED and internet-standards enthusiast who quietly optimizes logging, tests, and build scripts for real-world interoperability.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master's of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMasters of Engineering (MEng) and Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Masters of Engineering (MEng) and Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at École PolytechniqueMathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Physics at Lycee Prive Sainte Genevieve
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
env10
c-language10
envoyproxy10
scripting10
http10
bash10
script10
quic10
sh10
communication-protocol10
logging10
protocols10
shell10
cprogramming-language10
convoy10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
google/quiche
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 1 PR, 18 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily involve modifications to QUIC protocol implementation, including changes to flags, transport parameters, and connection handling. They refactored code related to version downgrade prevention and deprecated several features, such as transport parameters and connection options. Furthermore, the user added support for draft-ietf-masque-h3-datagram-09, indicating involvement in HTTP Datagrams development. These changes suggest a focus on refining QUIC functionality and adapting to evolving protocol specifications.
envoyproxy/envoy
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:176 reviews, 17 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the Envoy platform's QUICHE logging functionality. Their work included modifications to logging code for performance, debugging, and control of verbosity levels via environment variables. Furthermore, the user implemented checks and assertions within QUICHE and modified the existing test suite. They also updated the QUICHE dependency, ensuring alignment with the project's reliance on the QUIC and HTTP/3 protocols.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
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