Florin Coras
Principal Software Engineer at Cisco
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorin Coras is a Principal Software Engineer in Los Angeles with 12 years building high-performance, user-space networking systems and overlays at Cisco and in FD.io. He architects and implements solutions at the intersection of data, control and management planes, with recent open-source contributions to VPP, EnvoyProxy and OpenDaylight that make Zero Trust networking and programmable overlays practical and performant. Notable work includes designing a full TCP/session user-space host stack in VPP, leading the Overlay Network Engine effort, and refactoring Envoy’s socket layer to prepare for future socket APIs. A PhD in Computer Science with deep protocol and systems expertise, he combines rigorous research background with production-grade engineering and a track record of moving prototype SDN work into deployable projects.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Telecommunications, Engineer Telecommunications at Technical University of Cluj NapocaUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Romanian, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
socket-io10
env10
socket10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
envoyproxy10
networking10
convoy10
qtest9
testing9
unit-testing9
system-testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
May 2020 - Apr 2022
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:109 reviews, 35 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Florin primarily refactored and improved the network socket code within the Envoy proxy. Their contributions focused on moving socket-related functionalities from address to socket classes, preparing the code for future socket API changes and general improvements. The changes involved creating new socket interfaces, implementing socket options, and integrating these features into the existing test suite. These refactorings enhance the maintainability and extensibility of the networking components within Envoy.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
vpp-dev/vpp
Feb 2016 - Aug 2020
Working copy of vpp
Contributions:1113 commits, 12 pushes in 4 years 6 months
vppworking-copy
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