Phil Young
Photography MFA Candidate
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Young is a former networking software engineer with 8 years of recent hands-on experience integrating high-performance Ethernet acceleration into real-world network security products, and he is now pursuing an MFA in Photographic Art at Maine Media College. He spent over a decade at Napatech as a Senior Field Applications Engineer, bridging customers and engineering while building demos and web-based tools that showcased FPGA-based packet processing and integrations with open-source projects like Suricata. His open-source contributions include low-level work to integrate Napatech hardware with the well-known Suricata IDS/IPS, improving packet handling, counters, and bypass support to boost performance on specialized NICs. Prior roles at Intel saw him lead network processor integrations, mobile software projects, and research into peer-to-peer and video conferencing systems, demonstrating a rare mix of embedded/networking systems and product-facing technical leadership. Based in Nashua, NH, he brings a disciplined engineering mindset to his photographic practice, blending technical rigor with visual storytelling.
8 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of DelawareBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA at Ohio University
Github Skills (14)
c1710
cybersecurity10
network-security10
ids10
network-monitoring10
c1110
intrusion-detection10
system-integration10
integrations10
suricata10
hardware-interface10
system-programming9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OISF/suricata
Jul 2017 - Nov 2020
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 75 PRs, 68 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the integration of Napatech hardware with Suricata. Their work involved implementing packet counters, adding bypass support, and simplifying the integration process. The contributions included modifications to the source code, documentation updates, and restructuring of packet handling, specifically relating to stream processing and hardware interaction. These changes aimed to enhance Suricata's performance with Napatech network cards.
git-repositorynsmipssecurityids
pjyoung1/suricata
Jul 2017 - Feb 2022
Mirror of the official OISF Suricata git repository
Contributions:12 PRs, 139 pushes, 107 branches in 4 years 8 months
hacklanggit-repositoryversion-controlsubversionmercurial
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