Eric Garver
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolEric Garver is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and hardening networking and systems software, currently driving core development at Red Hat from Ohio. He has a strong background in Linux networking and Open vSwitch, contributing VLAN/QinQ features, datapath and conntrack tests, and critical OpenFlow fixes in a widely used open-source project. Prior roles at Extreme Networks, Overture, and Renesas show deep embedded and networking firmware experience, while early work at the University of Michigan demonstrates a knack for automation and tooling that scaled campus deployments. Known for blending hands-on implementation with rigorous test automation, he focuses on durable, auditable solutions for complex distributed systems. An engineer who moves comfortably between low-level packet handling and higher-level infrastructure, he brings practical curiosity—often surfacing subtle protocol bugs before they hit production.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Eastern Michigan University
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Github Skills (14)
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conntrack9
vps6
centos6
firewalld6
linux6
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python6
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openvswitch/ovs
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Open vSwitch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the Open vSwitch project by implementing features and writing tests related to 802.1ad (QinQ tunneling) support. They added new macros for creating and managing VLAN devices, including SVLAN and CVLAN. Their work extended to writing comprehensive test cases that validate the functionality of 802.1ad, including datapath and conntrack testing. Additionally, the user fixed a critical bug in the `set_field` OpenFlow action and added support for the `ct_clear` action.
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erig0/leapp-repository
Mar 2019 - Feb 2025
Leapp repositories containing actors for the Leapp framework (https://github.com/oamg/leapp)
Contributions:1 PR, 86 pushes, 10 branches in 6 years
repositoriesleappactorsleapp-framework
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