Steven Noble
Tails at Hedgehog
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Noble is a seasoned network engineer and leader with over 30 years of experience designing, testing, and deploying high-performance networks for enterprises and cloud providers. Currently a staff network engineer at Hedgehog and Program Lead for the Open Network Linux project in OCP, he combines hands-on lab work with vendor collaboration to validate 400/800/1.6Tb switches, RoCE, and cutting-edge optics. As President of NetDEF and founder of SONN LLC, he champions open source networking—contributing kernel and platform-level changes to projects like Open Network Linux and leading community-driven OS efforts such as DentOS at AWS. Known for bridging product direction, operational deployment, and training, he brings rare depth across hardware, OS internals, and organizational governance. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he balances deep technical craft with non-profit stewardship to accelerate adoption of open networking technologies.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Music Theory and Composition, Associate Music Theory and Composition at Sierra CollegePonderosa HighNone Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management, None Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (13)
kernel10
configurations10
server-configuration10
system-configuration10
kernel-mode10
hardware10
operating-system10
sys9
makefile9
embedded9
i2c8
python7
devops7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux
Nov 2015 - Aug 2022
Open Network Linux - An Operating System for Bare Metal Switches
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 reviews, 163 commits, 209 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the Open Network Linux (ONL) project by modifying kernel build configurations and platform files. Their work involved setting kernel major versions, integrating platform-specific configurations for various Accton and Quanta switch models, and updating the installer script for automated deployment. Furthermore, the user adapted an existing pull request and integrated support for new hardware platforms by adding associated platform-specific configurations and initialization files.
bare-metalmetaloperating-systemlinuxoperating
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