Peter Gao
Software Engineer at Waymo
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Gao is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance networking and planning systems, currently contributing to Waymo's planner team from Berkeley. His background spans packet-processing and NFV platforms—he helped implement and refactor gate hooks and APIs for the Berkeley Extensible Software Switch (BESS) and built a packet-tracing subsystem at Nefeli to measure latency, drops, and per-network-function metrics. Early internships at Microsoft produced a custom stream query engine for packet traces and diagnostic tooling for WPF, reflecting a strong systems and tooling mindset. He holds advanced CS training including an MMath from Waterloo and PhD work at UC Berkeley, and combines research-grade rigor with pragmatic engineering to improve modularity and observability in complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Exchange, Computer Science, Exchange, Computer Science at Rice UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at UC BerkeleyMMath, Computer Science, MMath, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
bpf10
protobuffer9
networking9
protobuf9
kernel8
sdn8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NetSys/bess
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
BESS: Berkeley Extensible Software Switch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on implementing and modifying gate hooks, a core feature of the BESS software switch. Their contributions involved refactoring code to share data structures and adding new functionalities like the `ListGateHooks` API and the `ConfigureResumeHook`. The user also moved existing BPF functionalities to the utils folder, indicating an effort to improve code reusability and modularity within the project.
berkeleybessswitchextensible
pxgao/rdma_swap_dev
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 1 branch in 9 months
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