Olafur Gudmundsson
Owner at OGUD Consulting LLC
Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOlafur Gudmundsson is a veteran network and security engineer focused on DNS and DNSSEC, with over three decades of experience spanning research, standards leadership, and production engineering. He led DNS initiatives at Cloudflare—driving DNSSEC deployment, large-scale edge systems, and automated parent DS management—and served as VP and director of engineering during periods of rapid growth. Long active in the IETF, he chaired DNSEXT/DNSIND and DANE working groups and authored or edited eight RFCs, bringing deep protocol-level insight to operational problems. A trusted community representative for the DNS root key and ICANN RSTEP panel member, he blends technical authority with practical implementation experience. Now retired and consulting through OGUD, he remains engaged with peers and continues to advise on thorny DNS operational and key-management challenges.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Háskóli ÍslandsMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Maryland
Icelandic, English
Github Skills (25)
dyndns10
dnssec10
dns-record9
coredns9
powerdns9
dns9
resolver8
dns-over-https8
golang7
go7
post-quantum3
removal3
cloudflare-workers2
letsencrypt2
cloudflare2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ogud/DNS-any-notimp
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 7 months
codifyqueriesreject
ogud/DNSSEC_ALG_Check
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year
verifiesdnsresolverchecksdnssec
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