Sam Hague is a seasoned software engineer and architect with 12+ years designing and delivering complex networking and cloud solutions, currently at Broadcom in Durham, NC. He has deep expertise in SDN, OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, OpenStack integration and model-driven microservice architectures developed during senior roles at Red Hat and contributions to the OpenDaylight community as a PTL and Technical Steering Committee member. Sam combines hands-on systems programming (Python, Java, YAML, Bash) with cross-company leadership, having driven CI/platform refactors, release model improvements, and multi-vendor project coordination. His background spans embedded real-time systems and telecom protocols at Cisco to datacenter networking at Extreme, giving him a rare blend of low-level platform understanding and cloud-native architecture experience. Notably, he has repeatedly led community-driven projects and proofs-of-concept—such as Service Function Chaining and VPP control—demonstrating a knack for turning research prototypes into production-ready designs.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
A tool to troubleshoot the NetVirt OpenDaylight OpenStack integration.
Contributions:24 commits, 23 PRs, 48 pushes in 10 months
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