David Waiting
Senior Solution Architect - Telco at Red Hat
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Waiting is a Senior Solution Architect specializing in high-performance telco workloads, with 11 years of experience designing and deploying carrier-grade virtualized and containerized infrastructure. He moved from hands-on roles building IMS and mobile core networks in South Africa to leading large-scale OpenStack and Kubernetes deployments at Comcast (20,000+ CPUs) and now architects open-source telco solutions at Red Hat. David combines deep expertise in NFV/SDN, DPDK, SR-IOV, NUMA and orchestration with a PhD in Telecommunications, enabling practical performance tuning and automation at scale. A clear communicator and effective decision maker, he authors thought leadership and runs workshops to translate complex product capabilities into customer value. Notably, he has a track record of inventing tools, running industry-first inter-operator trials, and patenting novel technologies that bridge research and production.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Engineering Telecommunications Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering Telecommunications Engineering at University of Cape Town
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
filesystem9
ansible9
ims9
ceph8
python8
vagrant8
sensu8
devops7
dart6
firebase6
flutter6
google-cloud-firestore6
firebase-authentication6
javascript6
google-authentication6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dwaiting/password-scramble
Dec 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
dwaiting/uct-ims-client
Jul 2014 - Jun 2022
An update of the original UCT IMS client project
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 8 years
updateclient-projectimsuct
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