Mehrdad Rad
Staff Software Engineer at Riot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMehrdad Rad is a Staff Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with 10+ years building resilient, high-performance network and security systems for large-scale platforms. He specializes in eBPF, Linux, Go and distributed/cloud-native architectures, currently protecting Riot Games' gaming infrastructure from DDoS and other network threats. His background spans deep network engineering, telemetry and observability (gNMI, Cisco MDT, Juniper JTI) and high-throughput Go services such as enterprise flow collection and SSH-at-scale tooling. An active open-source contributor, Mehrdad has meaningful contributions to notable projects like cilium/ebpf and enterprise-grade collectors (vflow), demonstrating kernel-level insight and practical systems design. He pairs hands-on systems coding in C and Go with operational thinking—designing self-healing, measurable systems that scale globally. Outside of obvious expertise, he brings a rare combination of long-standing carrier-grade networking experience and modern cloud-native eBPF tooling to bridge kernel internals with production observability.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer science, BS, Computer science at Azad University (IAU)Diploma, Mathematics, Diploma, Mathematics at Haft-Tir High school
Persian, English
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Github Skills (23)
tracer10
ebpf10
data-parsing10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
automation10
go10
golang10
automations10
trace10
ssh10
server9
error-handling9
netfilter9
network9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yahoo/vssh
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
Go Library to Execute Commands Over SSH at Scale
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:58 commits, 4 PRs, 38 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mehrdad's commits focused on developing and maintaining the `vssh` library, a Go-based tool for executing commands over SSH at scale. Contributions included core library functionality, such as adding client management features and optimizing locking mechanisms. The user also worked on setting up and testing the project, and improving the code's overall quality through refactoring and commenting.
gosshgolangautomationserver
Edgio/vflow
Jan 2017 - May 2022
Enterprise Network Flow Collector (IPFIX, sFlow, Netflow)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 664 commits, 36 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mehrdad was involved in initializing and developing the sflow package, which included creating a decoder, adding support for format filtering, and integrating a sample loop. They implemented basic functionality for decoding various sflow data types. Furthermore, they added methods to read data from a seeker and added various decoding methods for sampling and the parsing of enterprise fields.
netflownetwork-flowsflownetworkipfix
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