Matthew Carrington-fair is a software engineer based in the greater Boston area with a decade of experience building resilient networking software for Arista Networks. Since graduating from Tufts University in 2018, he has focused on routing protocols, network telemetry, and network OS infrastructure, delivering C++ and Python solutions for Arista’s EOS in embedded Linux environments. His work includes implementing SR-TE and SRv6 support for BGP L2/L3 VPNs, exporting forwarding entries via the OpenConfig AFT model, and optimizing convergence for link-down and remote tunnel failures. Matthew combines low-level systems thinking with production-grade telemetry and automation, ensuring features are fault tolerant at scale. Early internships at NASA Goddard and SYNEXXUS complemented his formal education and hint at a long-standing interest in applied systems and tooling. He brings a pragmatic, network-focused engineering mindset and a track record of shipping complex protocol features in commercial networking products.
10 years of coding experience
Japanese Studies, Japanese Studies at Kanazawa University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Tufts University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Academia Cotopaxi American International School
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Potomac School
Contributions:6 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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Matthew Carrington-fair - Software Engineer at Arista Networks