Paul Ogilby
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Cambridge, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Ogilby is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native networking systems, currently contributing to Google Cloud Load Balancing and serving as an Envoy maintainer. He brings deep backend expertise in configuration and secret management, having improved Envoy’s admin interface, configuration dump filtering, and robustness around field masks and map redaction. With a strong academic foundation—a Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT and prior masters and bachelors from Penn—he combines rigorous theoretical training with practical systems engineering. Based in Cambridge, England, he has a track record of shipping resilient distributed features that refresh stream idle timeouts and propagate shadow state reliably. Beyond engineering, he has a history of mentoring and teaching at multiple levels, reflecting a knack for translating complex ideas into clear, usable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Arts (M.A.), Mathematics, 3.96, Master of Arts (M.A.), Mathematics, 3.96 at University of Pennsylvania
English, German
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
apidoc9
api9
http9
testing8
kubernetes-pods5
dockers5
docker5
cnc5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 reviews, 12 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the Envoy proxy's admin interface and configuration management. Their work involved fixing crashes related to invalid field masks in the admin interface, improving the filtering capabilities of the configuration dump, and addressing issues in the secret management system. The user also added the ability to handle maps correctly in redact and made stream idle timeouts refresh with new routes and propagation of shadow state.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
paul-r-gall/envoy
May 2021 - Apr 2025
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Contributions:179 pushes, 45 branches in 3 years 11 months
golangproxyedgeperformancekubernetes
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