Diego Del Rio
CTO at SCinet
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Del Rio is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Mountain View with 15+ years of experience spanning cloud and virtualization product management, carrier-grade IP/MPLS network design, and embedded electronic systems. He blends strategic product leadership at Nuage Networks and Mediatel with deep hands-on engineering—contributing to notable open-source projects like ExaBGP and PacketFence where he implemented EVPN features, authentication fixes, and NAC enhancements. Comfortable across Linux, hypervisors, routing and switching, and telecom stacks (GSM/3G and mobile backhaul), he’s also an effective trainer who translates complex networking concepts for customers and teams. Multilingual and well-traveled, Diego brings a global perspective to product strategy and integrations, often drawing on field experience from large conference network builds and international deployments.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Electronics, Telecommunications, Engineer, Electronics, Telecommunications at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos AiresInternational Baccalaureate, Physics, Chemistry and IT, International Baccalaureate, Physics, Chemistry and IT at St. John's School
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, English
Github Skills (26)
vpn10
back-end-development10
python10
vpn-client10
digital-signage10
configuration-management10
openvpn10
networking10
ruby10
protonvpn10
bgp10
network10
syslog10
algorithm9
algorithms9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
inverse-inc/packetfence
Jul 2017 - Oct 2022
PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, powerful BYOD management options, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices; PacketFence can be used to effectively secure networks small to very large heterogeneous networks.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 24 commits, 9 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to enhancing network access control features and backend infrastructure. Their work included adding support for roles and MAC-based authentication with Ruckus wireless controllers, improving syslog configuration for logging, and refactoring code. Furthermore, the user implemented domain passthrough capabilities for DNS load balancing, contributing to the overall stability and management of the PacketFence system. They also added enhancements to the HAProxy configuration.
heterogeneous-networkslayer-2captivecentralizedsecure
Exa-Networks/exabgp
Jan 2011 - May 2015
The BGP swiss army knife of networking
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the core functionality of the ExaBGP project. Their work involved implementing new features for handling BGP capabilities, particularly around EVPN (Ethernet VPN) and prefix advertisements. They fixed bugs related to socket exceptions and added support for various attributes and configurations, including labels and MD5 authentication, while also improving code structure. The user also refactored existing code to handle IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
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