Renato Westphal
Network Software Engineer at Nokia
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRenato Westphal is a Network Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and implementing distributed algorithms and network protocols, currently based in Florianópolis, Brazil. He has a strong track record in open-source collaboration and cross-border teamwork, having spent a decade at the Network Device Education Foundation before joining Nokia. Renato combines hands-on protocol development with practical deployment experience from carrier and telecom environments, gained at Digistar and Taghos. He holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and brings dual Brazilian–Italian citizenship that aids international collaboration. Known for translating complex distributed-systems research into production-ready networking software, he often bridges standards, implementation, and interoperability testing. Colleagues value his steady engineering leadership and focus on robust, portable protocol implementations.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Engineering, BSc, Computer Engineering at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Github Skills (88)
nfv10
cpp10
pbr10
bgp10
compiler10
rust10
quagga10
yang10
grpc10
json10
infiniband10
router10
mpls10
ipv610
electrical-engineering10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
holo-routing/yang-rs
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Rust bindings for the libyang library.
Contributions:36 reviews, 100 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 2 months
rustyang
opensourcerouting/frr
Oct 2016 - Nov 2021
Free Range Routing Protocol Suite
Contributions:389 commits, 2 PRs, 564 pushes in 5 years 2 months
infinibandospfnfvbgprouting
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