Nick Feamster
Neubauer Professor Of Computer Science at Tiscaya, LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Feamster is a Neubauer Professor of Computer Science and founding director with a career blending pioneering research in machine learning–driven network security and performance with successful entrepreneurial and legal engagement. A top-cited networking researcher and ACM Fellow, he helped invent technologies that seeded SDN and early AI-driven security, and co-authored a leading networking textbook with Andrew Tanenbaum. He has founded multiple startups (including NetMicroscope and Tiscaya), served as an expert witness in high-stakes IP and privacy litigation, and has a track record of industry adoption and favorable courtroom outcomes. Nick was an early internet engineer—one of the first software hires at LookSmart—and built one of the first systems for live TV streaming over the Internet in the 1990s. He helped scale education as a founding instructor for Georgia Tech’s massive online MSCS program and remains active in open-source SDN tooling work such as maintaining Coursera SDN environment scripts. Based in Chicago, he combines deep technical rigor from MIT and academia with practical product, policy, and litigation experience.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMenlo School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
p4v10
script10
bash10
p4a10
p4lang10
p4api10
sdn10
mininet10
automation9
automations9
topology9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
noise-lab/Coursera-SDN
May 2015 - Oct 2022
SDN Coursera Coursework
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 15 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on setting up and configuring the environment for a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Coursera coursework. Their contributions include initial setup scripts for the P4 language using the P4 factory, which involves installing necessary dependencies and configuring network interfaces. They also made minor adjustments to these setup scripts to address issues. Furthermore, they set up shortcuts for running Mininet with a specific topology.
vagrantsdnvagrantfilevirtualbox
feamster/strava-utils
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Command Line Utilities for Strava
Contributions:3 PRs, 19 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 3 months
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