Jon Hall is a Senior SQA Automation Engineer with 12 years focused on SDN integration testing and open-source QA, currently driving test automation at Clear Capital from Palo Alto. He spent eight years at Ciena contributing to Open Networking Foundation projects like ONOS and SD-Fabric, where he implemented leadership election functionality and CLI tooling for the widely used ONOS platform. Jon pairs deep back-end engineering experience in distributed cluster and leadership services with a QA mindset, ensuring reliability across complex network software stacks. He holds BS and MS degrees from the University of the Pacific and brings a practical blend of academic grounding and hands-on open-source impact.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Masters of Science (MS), Bachelor of Science (BS), Masters of Science (MS) at University of the Pacific
Contributions summary:Jon's contributions center around the development of a leadership election test application for the ONOS project. They implemented core functionalities, including running, withdrawing from, and retrieving the leader for the election test application. The user also created CLI commands to interact with the election process, such as obtaining the current leader's ID. These changes involved the core cluster service, core service, and leadership service of ONOS.
Emulator for rapid prototyping of Software Defined Networks
Contributions:28 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 6 months
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