Ray Milkey
Senior Software Engineer at Pepperdata
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Milkey is a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years building scalable, distributed systems and cloud software from datacenter management at Dell to networking control planes at the Open Networking Foundation. He specializes in back-end Java development, REST API design, testing and refactoring, and has contributed notable work to the ONOS open-source SDN project around distributed group and flow stores. Ray has experience across enterprise-scale virtualization, cloud services, and performance tuning, and currently applies that expertise at Pepperdata after a cloud-focused role at Intel. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and system design, he has repeatedly stabilized large customer deployments and automated management workflows. Based in Los Altos, he blends deep engineering rigor with practical operational insight—often surfacing subtle API and test improvements that reduce long-term maintenance costs.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
javas10
java10
rest-api9
software-design8
distributed-systems7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
opennetworkinglab/onos
Oct 2014 - May 2022
Open Network Operating System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1559 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ray's commits indicate a focus on back-end development within the Open Network Operating System (ONOS) project, specifically addressing the distributed group store and flow objective store. The contributions involve unit tests for core functionalities, refactoring of existing code, and the implementation of a REST API, with a noticeable emphasis on Java programming and software design. The user is likely responsible for testing core functionality and improving the project's APIs.
ospfopenflowbazeloperating-systemnfv
onosproject/sdran-helm-charts
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Helm charts for SD-RAN
Contributions:13 reviews, 233 commits, 83 PRs in 2 years
chartshelmhelm-chartsrankubernetes
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