Dror Levy
Senior Software Engineer at Mellanox Technologies
Israel
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Top SchoolDror Levy is a Senior Software Engineer based in Israel with five years of professional experience designing and implementing systems for high-performance networking hardware. He has worked at Mellanox and NVIDIA, contributing hands-on to SONiC build infrastructure and device-specific integrations for Mellanox platforms—tuning QoS, buffer settings, firmware and SAI/SDK updates to ensure robust production images. Dror blends back-end development with DevOps practices, routinely bridging software and hardware concerns to deliver deployable binary images and toolchain upgrades. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from Technion and is pursuing advanced studies at Bar-Ilan, reflecting a strong academic foundation paired with practical, low-level systems expertise. An understated strength is his knack for integrating vendor firmware/tools (like MFT) to unblock new features and resolve complex interoperability bugs.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
English, Hebrew, French
Github Skills (17)
mellanox10
sonic10
firmware10
makefile10
sdk10
updater10
live-update10
jinja29
api8
build-automation8
cmake8
apim8
devops8
buffering7
qos7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:58 reviews, 105 commits, 238 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Dror primarily contributed to the build and configuration of installable binary images for SONiC, focusing on the Mellanox platform. Their work involved adding and modifying device-specific configurations, including buffer settings and Quality of Service (QoS) profiles. They also updated firmware, SDK versions, and the Mellanox SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface), demonstrating a focus on integrating and maintaining the underlying hardware components. The user also integrated and upgraded the MFT (Mellanox Firmware Tools) and other tools to support new features and address bugs.
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
dprital/sonic-utilities
Jul 2021 - Jul 2024
Command line utilities for the SONiC project
Contributions:22 PRs, 24 pushes, 98 branches in 3 years
command-line-utilitiessoniccli
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