Taras Netrev is a serial founder and CEO with nearly two decades of experience turning early-stage innovations into category-defining businesses from San Francisco. As co-founder of INGENIZE he helps startups escape crowded product-market fit battles by crafting bold Points of View, building movements, and creating monopoly-like categories. His background spans deep-tech, travel tech (co-founding Enguide), BI and big-data systems, and hands-on product leadership from startups he built since the 2000s. Technically grounded, he has contributed to the open-source collectd project—improving DPDK stats collection and maintaining code quality—which reflects a blend of engineering rigor and strategic vision. Known for reframing customer pain points into new market opportunities, he pairs storytelling and go-to-market strategy with product execution. Outside work he channels curiosity into science and robotics with his sons, a persistence that informs his preference for building rather than competing.
The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Taras contributed to the `collectd/collectd` repository by implementing and refining functionality related to the DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) plugin. Their work involved adding new error types and filters, mapping flow and MAC counters, and improving existing code for the DPDK stats collection process. Furthermore, the user addressed comments from code reviews, fixed bugs, and updated log messages, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability within the DPDK integration. They also added support for DPDK 16.07.
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