Kebo Liu is a seasoned software engineering manager with 10+ years driving networking software and platform development across Nvidia, Mellanox and telecom vendors, specializing in SONiC, IP/MPLS, GMPLS and MPLS-TP. He blends hands-on C/C++ and Python development with system-level expertise on VxWorks/Linux to ship kernel drivers, platform daemons and build/CI improvements that harden hardware monitoring and transceiver support. At Nvidia he leads teams delivering production-grade SONiC features—his open-source contributions span critical repos like sonic-buildimage, sonic-swss and sonic-platform-common where he improved transceiver monitoring, Mellanox driver stability and CLI utilities. Comfortable toggling between code, testing and DevOps, Kebo is notable for fixing subtle hardware-software edge cases (e.g., EEPROM/SFP handling and sensor thresholds) that improve reliability in large-scale switch deployments. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and combines telecom-grade protocol knowledge with pragmatic engineering leadership in high-performance networking.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Contributions:7 reviews, 36 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kebo primarily contributed to the Linux kernel drivers for the SONiC project. Their work involved bug fixes related to Mellanox drivers, specifically addressing issues in reading unsupported slave addresses from SFP EEPROMs. Additionally, they added support for Gear Box temperatures in the hwmon interface, and implemented the ability to validate transceiver temperature thresholds. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing hardware monitoring and improving driver stability.
Python packages which provide a common interface to platform-specific hardware peripherals in SONiC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:62 reviews, 33 commits, 27 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kebo primarily focused on enhancing the `sfputilbase` module for transceiver monitoring within the SONiC platform. Their contributions included adding APIs for reading transceiver and DOM information, implementing support for TX power, and fixing various bugs related to eeprom access and parsing. Additionally, the user refactored existing code, correcting typos, and addressing review comments to improve the module's functionality and maintainability. This work directly supports the platform-specific hardware peripheral interaction, improving the SONiC platform's functionality.
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