Harvey Tuch
Founder (ex-Google, Ex-VMware) at Stealth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarvey Tuch is a systems-focused founder and former Google Senior Staff Software Engineer with 17+ years building cloud networking, service mesh, load balancing and virtualization technologies. He led Google’s Envoy platform and designed the widely adopted xDS APIs that underpin modern data-plane/control-plane ecosystems used by Envoy, gRPC and major control planes. At VMware he pioneered ESXi on ARM and mobile hypervisor innovations, and earlier applied formal verification techniques to low-level systems during seL4 work. An active OSS contributor, his commits touch core projects like Envoy, gRPC and protobuf and include practical fixes for TLS, HTTP/2, protobuf JSON handling and fuzzing build automation. Based in Cambridge, MA, he blends deep research (PhD-level verification background) with pragmatic product delivery and a taste for rapid prototyping of system software. Colleagues describe him as a rare engineer who moves clean, provable systems from theory into global production.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (60)
env10
json10
alpn10
docker10
c-language10
tls1210
envoyproxy10
validations10
scripting10
api-design10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
memory-management10
http10
bash10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/data-plane-api
May 2017 - Apr 2018
[READ ONLY MIRROR] Envoy REST/proto API definitions and documentation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:130 commits, 437 PRs, 289 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Harvey primarily contributed to the development of the gRPC API definitions within the repository. Their work involved drafting and refining the data plane API, particularly the RDS, CDS, and EDS services. The user also made adjustments to address.proto and other related API components, ensuring a functional proto build system. They introduced changes related to various filter configurations and improved the consistency of APIs.
apienvoyprotobufprotodefinitions
envoyproxy/envoy
Feb 2017 - May 2022
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 4051 reviews, 778 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Harvey's commits primarily focused on the internal workings of the Envoy proxy. They made several refactorings and improvements to core networking components, including fixes for potential issues related to TLS and stream processing, as well as updates related to gRPC and configuration handling. The contributions included support for custom channel arguments, handling issues with code execution during startup, and refining the management of HTTP/2 protocol features. They also implemented the handling of a new option for setting the maximum header count.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
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