Jeff Tantsura
Distinguished Architect at IETF
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Tantsura is a Distinguished Architect based in Palo Alto with deep, end-to-end expertise in networking—from radio base stations through core/Internet and data-center fabrics to services that run atop them. He blends product strategy, hands-on engineering and standards leadership, chairing IETF working groups (RTGWG, RIFT) and serving on the IAB while authoring 50+ IETF documents and holding 30+ patents in routing, fast convergence and technologies like EVPN and Segment Routing. At NVIDIA and previously Azure Networking and Ericsson/Apstra, he has driven architectures for AI/ML backends, intent-based networking, network slicing and hybrid SDN, translating research and standards into shipping products. A frequent speaker, podcast co-host and advisor to multiple startups, he’s skilled at bridging engineering teams and customers and evaluating solutions from both vendor and service-provider perspectives. Notably, he combines protocol-level innovation with practical operational focus—early-adopting and implementing technologies that later become industry standards.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Certificate of Business Excellence, Pricing, Negotiation, Product Management, Leadership and Financials, Strategy in Competitive Markets, Executive Certificate of Business Excellence, Pricing, Negotiation, Product Management, Leadership and Financials, Strategy in Competitive Markets at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessMaster's Degree, Computer Science and Systems Analysis, Master's Degree, Computer Science and Systems Analysis at Technical University Of Georgia
English, Dutch, Hebrew, Russian
Github Skills (40)
napalm10
sonic10
sdn10
virtual-network10
networking10
nfv10
openflow10
bgp10
yang10
ospf10
pbr9
infiniband9
mpls9
blockchain9
pim9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jefftant/yang
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
vendoryangstandardsorganizationsdaylight
jefftant/draft-contreras-nmrg-transport-slice-intent
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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