Summary
Kok Liew is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance networking and cloud systems, currently advancing GPU-initiated networking at NVIDIA. He has a strong track record at VMware and AWS working on SmartNIC offloads, flow caches, and a DPDK-based dataplane that enables EC2 access to S3/DynamoDB without internet transit. Kok excels at debugging complex datapath issues by correlating core dumps, logs, packet captures and performance metrics, and has delivered multi-fold throughput improvements in production systems. His background spans startups to hyperscale cloud providers, including leading feature delivery and automation for high-traffic media platforms earlier in his career. Trained at Carnegie Mellon in information security, he brings a security-minded systems perspective to networking and infrastructure challenges. Notably, he combines hands-on kernel/DPDK-level engineering with practical product delivery experience across hardware offload and cloud networking.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Information Technology - Information Security, Master, Information Technology - Information Security at Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese