Garrick He
Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrick He is a Principal Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building and hardening distributed systems, networking OSes, and security-focused dataplane features. He has driven kernel- and user-space work across companies like Salesforce, Dell, VMware, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks, with notable open-source contributions to SONiC—improving sFlow, mVRF support, and Python 3 migrations that fixed memory leaks and race conditions. At Salesforce he’s focused on PaaS for cloud-native apps on Kubernetes and is actively expanding his expertise from vertical scaling and security into horizontal, cloud-native architectures. Known for an inquisitive, experiment-driven approach, he pairs deep systems knowledge (crypto, YANG models, kernel bring-up) with community collaboration—coordinating changes between Dell and the Azure/SONiC community. An engineer who prefers learning by tinkering, he regularly augments formal study with online courses and practical open-source work.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Laney CollegeCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Chinese
Stackoverflow
499reputation
21kreached
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Github Skills (15)
docker10
sonic10
devops10
python10
dockers10
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
ebtables6
driver6
deb6
debian6
gcc6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 8 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Garrick primarily worked on the sFlow component within the SONiC build image, focusing on improving its functionality and stability. Their contributions involved converting scripts to Python 3, cleaning up the sFlow container, and fixing memory leaks. They also added mVRF support by bumping the hsFlowD version and addressed a race condition, ensuring correct service startup and interface configuration.
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
open-switch/opx-base-model
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year
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