Donnie Savage
Principal Engineer at Mac t-Sabhaois Farm
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonnie Savage is a Principal Engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience in software and networking, most recently leading digital transformation and API governance efforts at Cisco and Ray·Allen. He combines deep expertise in routing protocols (EIGRP, IS-IS, OSPF, BGP), embedded systems, and Linux-based architectures with a strong track record of shipping scalable licensing and routing solutions. An active open-source contributor, he co-authored the EIGRP IETF RFC 7868, wrote Wireshark dissectors, and contributes to FRR—work that underpins modern network observability and interoperability. Donnie is as comfortable coding protocol internals as he is managing cross-functional teams and driving compliance-focused engineering programs (SOC II, FIPS). Based in North Carolina, he balances high-tech work with hands-on sustainable farming, reflecting a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to problem solving. Colleagues know him for turning complex routing challenges into robust, production-ready designs while mentoring teams to sustain long-term quality and scale.
11 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of South Alabama
English
Github Skills (28)
pbr10
infiniband10
jailbreak10
mpls10
networking10
nfv10
blockchain10
openflow10
bgp10
pim10
ospf10
qemu9
utm9
emulation9
ios7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
diivious/DataMiner-PXCX
Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
Clone of Cisco PX Cloud DataMiner
Contributions:13 releases, 25 PRs, 60 pushes in 10 months
diivious/eigrpd
Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
This is the re-write of the eigrpd code from FRR
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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