Paolo Lucente
Global Routing Operations (GROW) WG Co-Chair
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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RockstarPaolo Lucente is a seasoned network software engineer with 19 years of experience building and maintaining production-grade routing and network monitoring tools, best known as the author of pmacct. He currently serves as Principal Network Tools Developer at NTT DATA and co-chairs the IETF Global Routing Operations (GROW) Working Group, shaping operational practices for global routing. Paolo combines deep C-level systems expertise—improving protocol daemons, NetFlow/BGP/BMP handling and Avro-JSON integrations—with open-source stewardship that keeps pmacct robust against evolving compilers and IP protocols. Founder and board member of ITNOG, he pairs community leadership with hands-on engineering, often tackling low-level interoperability and telemetry challenges others avoid. Based in Barcelona, he brings practical production experience and protocol-level intuition to large-scale network observability and routing operations.
19 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
debug10
c-programming10
network-protocol10
encoding9
encode9
avro9
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pmacct/pmacct
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
pmacct is a small set of multi-purpose passive network monitoring tools [NetFlow IPFIX sFlow libpcap BGP BMP RPKI IGP Streaming Telemetry].
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 128 reviews, 715 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Paolo primarily focused on improving the pmacct package's code against compiler warnings, particularly those raised by gcc9. They addressed issues by modifying existing C code related to utility functions, network handling, and various daemon functionalities such as BGP and BMP daemons. In addition to bug fixes, the user implemented features related to Avro-JSON format for data encoding and integrating with schema registries. They also enhanced the code dealing with packet and data handling to support the new IP protocols.
bmpservicenowyangflink-sqldata-stream
paololucente/draft-ietf-grow-bmp-tlv
Jul 2019 - Feb 2025
TLV support for BMP Route Monitoring and Peer Down Messages
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 65 pushes in 5 years 8 months
snmpbmptlvrouterosbgp
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