Hadriel Kaplan
Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks
Amherst, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHadriel Kaplan is a Distinguished Engineer with 12 years of focused experience designing and implementing high-performance, distributed software routers and networking systems. As a co-founder and VP of Technology of 128 Technology (acquired by Juniper), he merged architecture-level design with hands-on C++ development to deliver production-ready routing platforms. At Juniper he continues to shape system and component architecture while contributing C++17 runtime and library code. A long-time open-source contributor, he has made substantive back-end improvements to cornerstone projects like Wireshark and Universal Ctags—fixing crash bugs, enhancing Lua bindings, and adding robust parser features. His background uniquely combines standards engagement, customer-facing technical leadership, and deep protocol-level engineering across VoIP and routing domains. Based in Amherst, NH, he blends startup founder instincts with enterprise-scale engineering discipline to turn complex network requirements into reliable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (15)
tshark10
c1710
lua10
protocols10
cmake10
c1110
regex10
wireshark10
network-protocol10
networking10
packet-capture9
code-analysis9
asciidoc9
code-navigation8
developer-tools8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wireshark/wireshark
Jan 2014 - Sep 2015
Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. ⚠️ GitHub won't let us disable pull requests. ⚠️ THEY WILL BE IGNORED HERE ⚠️ Upload them at GitLab instead.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:173 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Hadriel primarily focused on fixing and improving the Wireshark dissector. Their contributions included fixing Lua bindings for timestamp precision, addressing GIOP dissector issues to handle multiple packets, and resolving a bug that caused Wireshark crashes. They also worked on exposing dissector features to Lua scripts, making the code more robust, and updated Lua scripts.
tsharkgit-repositorywiresharkpacket-capturegitlab
universal-ctags/ctags
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
A maintained ctags implementation
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 25 PRs, 7 pushes in 28 days
Contributions summary:Hadriel primarily contributed to the development of the ctags parser, focusing on adding features, fixing bugs, and improving code structure. Their work included implementing a new CMake parser using multi-table regex features, adding support for Asciidoc parsing including anchors, and incorporating various fixes and improvements for existing parsers like C++ and CMake. They also improved documentation related to extending ctags with regex parsers.
code-readingcode-completionctagsdeveloper-toolsrefactoring
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