Hugh Nhan
Principal S W Engineer at Red Hat
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorHugh Nhan is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years’ deep expertise in networking and storage firmware, kernel and embedded development, currently driving platform work at Red Hat from Durham, NC. He has built high-performance data planes and I/O stacks for router and virtualized networks (CSR1Kv, ISR4K, ISRv, ASR families) and led performance engineering across multi-core, multi-processor and hypervisor environments. His technical breadth spans NICs (10G/40G, SR-IOV, para-virtualized), SCSI/RAID controllers, QoS, ACLs, L2/L3 features, and low-level work in C and assembly on x86/ARM and network processors. Notably, he combines hands-on driver and kernel hacking with system-level analysis of hypervisor I/O bottlenecks and pragmatic remedies, a skill forged across Cisco, Nuage/Nokia, EMC and legacy UNIX vendors. Colleagues know him for turning subtle architectural hotspots into measurable performance gains and for shipping robust platform infra across both physical and virtualized deployments.
9 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (47)
kubernetes-operator10
performance-testing10
openshift10
chuck10
benchmark9
kubernetes9
bare9
common-data-format8
installer8
testing7
bare-metal7
data-format7
ansible7
automation-framework7
metal6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HughNhan/benchmark-operator
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
The Chuck Norris of cloud benchmarks
Contributions:6 reviews, 5 PRs, 48 pushes in 10 months
chuckcloudbenchmarkskubernetesnorris
HughNhan/regulus
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 238 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 1 month
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