Max Rottenkolber
Software Engineer at Igalia
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMax Rottenkolber is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in low-level networking, hardware/software interfaces, and compilers, currently contributing at Igalia from Bonn, Germany. A long-time open source hacker and consultant, he has deep practical experience in high-performance packet processing—evidenced by contributions to the well-regarded Snabb project, improving IPv4/IPv6 fragmentation, reassembly, and DynASM-based optimizations. He has led engineering efforts as Lead Software Engineer at Interstellar Ventures and maintained a freelance consultancy practice, blending hands-on systems programming with architectural leadership. Comfortable working remotely across Europe, Max combines pragmatic performance tuning with a knack for tackling subtle protocol and assembly-level challenges that often go unnoticed until they matter.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (11)
c1710
c1110
optmization10
optimisation10
networking10
lua8
mobile6
responsive-design6
css6
common-lisp6
ebpf5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
snabbco/snabb
Jun 2014 - Dec 2022
Snabb: Simple and fast packet networking
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 releases, 5 reviews, 1607 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Max contributed code to enhance and maintain the "Snabb: Simple and fast packet networking" repository. Their work focused on network packet processing and optimization, specifically within the ipv6 and ipv4 fragmentation and reassembly applications. They appear to be involved in low-level performance improvements via the use of DynASM (Dynamic Assembler), in addition to fixing minor bugs and addressing code refactoring tasks, demonstrating a focus on network protocol implementation.
networkingluajituserspace-driveruserspace-networkingnfv-framework
eugeneia/microlisp
Apr 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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