Liam Naddell
Software Developer at Cisco
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLiam Naddell is a software developer based in Old Toronto with a decade of hands-on experience across networking and embedded systems. He currently develops DDoS protection and traffic engineering features using BGP Flowspec at Cisco, building resilient, operator-focused network defenses. His background includes core OS tooling and testing at BlackBerry QNX and earlier internships that grounded him in systems-level engineering and quality assurance. A University of Toronto computer science graduate with a 3.59 GPA, Liam combines academic rigor with practical delivery in large-scale, safety- and availability-sensitive environments. He brings a pragmatic, test-driven mindset to infrastructure problems and a track record of shipping features that span kernel-adjacent tooling to high-throughput network controls. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves comfortably between low-level systems detail and operator-facing product needs.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.59, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.59 at University of Toronto
Github Skills (76)
gcc10
rust-lang10
golang10
compiler10
rust10
gnu10
programming-language9
openbsd9
interpreter9
operating-system9
freebsd9
go9
linux8
rust-language8
plan98
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
17liamnaddell/17liamnaddell.github.io
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:388 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
liamnaddell/gccrs
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
GCC Front-End for Rust
Contributions:221 pushes, 19 branches, 4 comments in 8 months
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