Stephen Worley
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Worley is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust networking and systems software, currently contributing at NVIDIA after earlier roles at Cumulus Networks and Red Hat. He specializes in back-end development for routing and data plane components, with notable open-source contributions to the widely used FRRouting project—adding policy-based routing features, EVPN enhancements, and test coverage. Stephen pairs a strong academic foundation from NC State (BS/MS Computer Science) with hands-on production engineering across networking stacks and cloud hardware software. Known on GitHub as a "Friendly Neighborhood Software Engineer," he brings pragmatic problem-solving and a focus on reliable, testable infrastructure—often working on subtle routing behaviours like protodown handling that materially improve operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
English
Github Skills (11)
c1710
bgp10
url-routing10
c1110
openvpn10
vpn10
networking10
vpn-client10
protonvpn10
netlink10
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FRRouting/frr
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
The FRRouting Protocol Suite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:180 reviews, 81 commits, 187 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on back-end development within the FRRouting Protocol Suite, as evidenced by contributions to the pbrd, sharpd, and zebra components. Their work included implementing features for policy-based routing (PBR), adding support for setting protodown functionality via sharpd and the underlying data plane, and enhancing the EVPN functionality, including L3 Route-Targets and queue limits. The user also made changes to documentation and added testing via topotests.
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FRRouting/frr-gsoc
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
GitHub Pages repo for GSoC
Contributions:3 PRs, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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