Ole Trøan
Software Engineer at Meter
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolOle Trøan is a software engineer with 15+ years building and standardizing Internet infrastructure, from IETF protocol leadership to high-performance data plane implementations. He spent a decade as co-chair of the IETF IPv6 working group and has driven consensus across vendors, operators, and implementers while co-designing carrier-grade protocol stacks (IPv6, BGP, DHCP) and transition mechanisms. As a core contributor and maintainer in FD.io’s VPP project and a longtime architect at Cisco, he engineers commodity-hardware packet processors and cloud-native data-plane components for global SASE/SSE services. He operates across the full lifecycle—standardization, architecture, implementation, and deployment—and is focused on making the Internet more open, resilient, and less dependent on fragile middleboxes. Based in Oslo, he combines deep protocol expertise with pragmatic system-building, including long-lived operational tools (e.g., his OCS router configuration system) still in use.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST)
English, Norwegian, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
workingcopy10
packet10
vector9
docker-desktop8
network-visualization7
python6
security6
pcap6
network-analysis6
network-security5
network5
packet-capture5
scapy5
virtual-machine4
packet-sniffer4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
otroan/IETF-drafts
May 2011 - Feb 2013
Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
buraglio/rfc6296-bis
Oct 2023 - Sep 2025
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 10 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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