Seth Malaki
Staff Software Engineer at Tigera
Munster, Ireland
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Top SchoolSeth Malaki is a Staff Software Engineer and engineering leader with 12+ years building cloud-native networking and security systems, currently leading a 16-person team at Tigera that ships infrastructure used on thousands of Kubernetes clusters. He blends hands-on expertise in Go, Python, C/C++, and emerging Rust work with kernel-level eBPF and VXLAN networking, having contributed notable features and Prometheus integrations to the widely used Project Calico repos. Equally comfortable as a manager and individual contributor, Seth runs engineering epics while coaching teams to deliver pragmatic, fast-iteration R&D that balances startup agility with enterprise reliability. His background ranges from running global e‑commerce platforms and SRE pipelines to improving observability for WireGuard and Calico’s VXLAN logic, showing a rare mix of systems depth and operational discipline. Based in Munster, Ireland, he’s driven by continuous learning and automation, deliberately keeping a “hands-on leadership” approach to stay close to the technical problems his teams solve.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at Holy Name UniversityBS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at Cebu Institute of Technology
English, Tagalog, Cebuano
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Github Skills (29)
kubernetes10
vxlan10
felix10
testing10
networking10
magento10
wireguard10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
calico10
security9
cni9
meteor9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/felix
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Project Calico's per-host agent Felix, responsible for programming routes and security policy.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 13 commits, 23 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the `felix` agent, focusing on VXLAN networking functionality. They implemented blackhole routes in VXLAN mode, including related testing and bug fixes, and also worked on improvements to the VXLAN manager logic. Furthermore, the user integrated prometheus metrics for wireguard which indicates involvement in the project's monitoring capabilities. They also addressed a bug related to vxlan noencap blackhole contention.
containersgolangpolicyhost-agentagent
projectcalico/calico
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 reviews, 17 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the project by adding features related to wireguard metrics and configuration, including new flags and Prometheus integration. They also made significant changes to the Typha discovery mechanism, modifying it to prioritize local endpoints. Furthermore, the user was involved in fixing build flags and resolving differences between open-source and enterprise versions of the code. Their work demonstrates proficiency in network configuration and system integration, and improving the reliability and maintainability of the Calico project.
multi-clustersecuritynetworkingsdnvirtual-network
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