Gal Sagie
Co-Founder And CEO at Hypernative
Israel
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Top SchoolGal Sagie is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of deep expertise in networking, virtualization, and high-performance Linux systems, currently serving as Co-Founder and CEO of Hypernative. He has led networking and cloud initiatives at Google, IBM, VMware and Huawei, and founded Cloudigo prior to its acquisition by IBM, combining product strategy with hands-on architecture and OO design. His contributions to low-level projects like the Berkeley Extensible Software Switch (BESS) reflect practical competence in datapath, control-plane work and protocol handling (ARP, MPLS) as well as Python-based tooling. Comfortable across kernel and user space, SDN/OpenFlow, DPDK and cloud-native containers, he excels at turning complex distributed networking requirements into reusable, testable components. Based in Israel, he pairs startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery, and maintains a technical blog that surfaces his interest in emerging network virtualization technologies.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
mpls9
arp9
python8
system-design7
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NetSys/bess
May 2017 - Jul 2017
BESS: Berkeley Extensible Software Switch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 24 PRs, 59 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gal primarily contributed to the development of the BESS software switch, focusing on low-level networking and control plane aspects. Their work included fixing comments, addressing PEP8 errors, removing unused variables/imports in Python scripts, and adding new features such as ARP responder and MPLS header utils and modules. They also improved existing code by enhancing the accessibility of MPLS headers and fixing a bug in the tcpdump command.
berkeleybessswitchextensible
GalSagie/GalSagie.github.io
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 137 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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