John Hurley
Principal Engineer at NVIDIA
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Hurley is a Principal Engineer with a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and nine years of industry experience building high-performance networking and virtualization software primarily in C on Linux. He has progressed through senior engineering roles at Netronome, Mellanox, and NVIDIA, designing user-space/kernel-space layers for devices including FPGAs, TCAMs, NPUs and SmartNICs. His work spans security, analytics, and Software Defined Networking, combining systems-level coding with research-led rigor from his academic background at Queen’s University Belfast. Comfortable across standalone systems and complex device drivers, he has repeatedly delivered production-ready solutions for hardware-accelerated networking. Known for bridging deep technical detail with product-focused engineering, he brings uncommon expertise in both programmable networking hardware and low-level Linux integration. Based in Belfast, he pairs research pedigree with large-company product delivery to tackle challenging infrastructure problems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (9)
c1710
openvswitch10
tcm10
c1110
mpls10
linux-kernel10
networking10
tca10
tcc10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Netronome/nfp-drv-kmods
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Drivers for Netronome Flow Processor devices, including the NFP4xxx and NFP6xxx models.
Contributions:101 commits in 2 years 3 months
drivers
open-nfpsw/ovs_lab
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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