Maryam Tahhan is a Principal Software Engineer based in Ireland with over a decade of experience building high-performance networking and Linux systems. She began her career at Intel through a Women in Technology scholarship and progressed through roles from network and storage software engineer to network software architect before joining Red Hat. Maryam specializes in Linux kernel driver development, AF_XDP, DPDK, SDN/NFV, and systems programming in C, C++ and Go, with a strong focus on software architecture for production networks. She’s known for taking initiative on difficult low-level problems and for bridging driver-level work with cloud-native orchestration like Kubernetes. A continuous learner who embraces change, she combines deep protocol-level expertise with pragmatic delivery across large engineering organizations. An understated strength is her longevity in evolving networking domains, reflecting both technical depth and adaptability.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Ard Scoil Mhuire FCJ Bruff
Contributions:18 PRs, 102 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 5 months
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Maryam Tahhan - Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat