Paolo Abeni
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Montecarlo, Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolPaolo Abeni is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with 16 years of experience specializing in Linux kernel networking, device drivers, and network security. He is a regular contributor to the Linux kernel networking stack, focused on squeezing higher performance from network paths and kernel subsystems. Paolo progressed through engineering and leadership roles from Telecom Italia to embedded systems and senior positions at Red Hat, bringing deep practical experience in low-level systems and protocol performance. Based in Tuscany, he blends academic grounding from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and Università di Pisa with hands-on kernel hacking and team leadership. Notably, his work bridges security research and high-performance networking, making him comfortable both tracing elusive kernel bugs and architecting production-grade networking services.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
laurea 5 anni ingegneria informatica, laurea 5 anni ingegneria informatica at Scuola Superiore 'Sant' Anna' di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamentolaurea Università di Pisa, laurea Università di Pisa at Università di Pisa
English
Github Skills (45)
udp10
multipath10
sctp10
upstream10
packet-capture10
tcp10
wireshark10
iperf10
sdn9
tshark9
sniffer9
mptcp9
networking9
linux-kernel9
linux9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pabeni/mptcp
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
Linux Kernel implementation of MultiPath TCP
Contributions:63 pushes, 113 branches in 2 years 5 months
linux-kernelmultipathtcp
pabeni/packetdrill
Nov 2020 - Oct 2025
The official Google release of packetdrill
Contributions:30 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 11 months
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