Paul Aitken
Network Software Engineer at Ciena
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Aitken is a seasoned network software engineer with over three decades of embedded and network systems experience, currently building SDN traffic engineering and security features at Ciena. He brings deep protocol and implementation expertise from 14 years at Cisco (Flexible NetFlow, IPFIX, IPv6) plus roles at AT&T Labs and Brocade focused on DPI, PBR and firewall capabilities. Comfortable across C, assembler, Python and Perl, Paul bridges real-time embedded design with platform-independent network feature development and full SDLC practices. He is a prolific standards contributor and inventor — authoring 15 RFCs, an internet standard, and 11 issued patents — and thrives on dissecting complex systems, whether debugging packet flows or exploring urban ruins in his downtime.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Information Engineering, BSc (Hons), Information Engineering at University of StrathclydeCoursera.org
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Github Skills (82)
ndpi10
dpi10
cybersecurity10
traffic-analysis10
packet10
serialization10
network10
sarif9
protocol-buffers9
static-analysis9
protobuf9
command-line-interface9
fluentd9
cpp9
fluent-bit9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pjaitken/vyatta-dataplane
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
pjaitken/czmq
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
High-level C binding for ØMQ
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
high-levelbinding
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