Tam Mach
CNCF Maintainer Committer at Cilium
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolTam Mach is a CNCF maintainer and committer with eight years of software engineering experience, currently deepening expertise in Go and cloud-native networking at Cilium while maintaining the cilium/proxy project. He blends backend and DevOps skills—improving tooling like eksctl, golangci-lint, and minikube—with hands-on work on L7 networking features such as gRPC filters and TLS in Envoy. Tam has a track record of improving CI, dependency management, and build workflows across notable open-source projects, and he learns at least one new thing daily. Based in Melbourne, he pairs formal engineering training from NTU and NUS with practical experience across fintech and enterprise firms, bringing both systems-level insight and pragmatic release-focused discipline. A less obvious strength is his ability to move between low-level networking details and high-level automation, making him effective at shipping reliable, production-ready cloud-native features.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological UniversityHigh School, Majored in Mathematics, High School, Majored in Mathematics at VNU-HCM High School for the GiftedMaster’s Degree, Information System, Master’s Degree, Information System at National University of Singapore
English, Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
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docker
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amazon-web-services
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amazon-ec2
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aws-cloudformation
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cassandra
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aws-lambda
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Github Skills (56)
dependency-management10
ss10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
amazon-eks10
ssl10
golangci-lint10
sslv310
amazon-web-services10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
aws-cloudformation10
go10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Apr 2020 - Apr 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2395 reviews, 1589 PRs, 1226 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Tam focused on enhancing the Cilium's envoy configuration and functionality, with a primary emphasis on Layer 7 (L7) policy implementation. Their contributions included introducing and configuring new gRPC filters such as `grpc_web` and `grpc_stats`, as well as improving aspects of TLS and HTTP request handling within the envoy proxy, ultimately aiming to enable more complex and robust network traffic management. This work involved modifying core components such as the envoy cluster configuration and enhancing overall proxy performance.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
golangci/golangci-lint-action
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Official GitHub Action for golangci-lint from its authors
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 20 reviews, 7 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tam's commits primarily focused on the configuration and maintenance of the CI/CD pipeline for the `golangci-lint-action` repository. This involved updating dependencies, fixing build issues, and adapting the build process to incorporate changes from automated dependency updates. They also made changes to use the official npm cache instead of a forked cache, improving efficiency and consistency within the workflow.
golanglinterlintgolangci-lintgo
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