Qiao Kang
Software Engineer at Apple
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQiao Kang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in OS networking stacks, NIC drivers, and high-performance host-NIC interfaces. Currently at Apple, Qiao develops kernel-level networking and NIC driver features, following a stint at an AI infrastructure startup focused on Ethernet/RDMA device drivers. Prior work at VMware included SmartNIC enablement for ESXi, BMC driver development, and NVMe offloading to NVIDIA BF2 SmartNICs, showing a consistent focus on bridging hardware and OS for performant I/O. His research background at Rice University produced high-profile publications in USENIX Security, ASPLOS, and SOSP, reflecting deep systems and networking security expertise. Comfortable moving between research and production, he often translates P4-switch security concepts into practical kernel and firmware implementations. Based in the United States, Qiao blends academic rigor with hands-on driver and firmware engineering for complex data-plane problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master (unfinished PhD) Computer Science, Master (unfinished PhD) Computer Science at Rice UniversityMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Beihang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
textbook5
science4
operating-system3
kernel3
computer-science3
risc-v2
linux2
rust2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
qiaokang92/poise
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
qiaokang92/Algorithms
Jun 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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