Sebastiano Miano is a senior software architect and researcher with 11 years of experience building high-performance networking systems, scalable distributed architectures, and programmable data planes for cloud-native and HPC/AI environments. He has led engineering and research teams from academia to industry—most recently at NVIDIA and as CTO at Path Network—delivering production-grade systems that combine eBPF/XDP, DPDK, SmartNICs, Kubernetes, and kernel-level optimizations. His PhD and postdoc work produced practical open-source innovations (e.g., bpf-iptables, Polycube, Morpheus) that materially improved packet-processing performance and informed real-world deployments like Meta’s Katran. Comfortable spanning kernel to cloud, he specializes in marrying adaptive compilation and NIC offload to scale stateful network functions across cores, often achieving multi‑fold speedups versus traditional techniques. Based in Catania, he keeps a public lab notebook of his work and — contrary to his GitHub quip “I never meant to look serious” — blends rigorous research with pragmatic engineering to push networking limits.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 cum laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 cum laude at Università di Catania
Conservatory of Music "F. Cilea" Reggio Calabria
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Politecnico di Torino
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