Thomas Wambold
Principal Engineer at MachineQ, a Comcast Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Wambold is a Principal Engineer and co-founder with 17 years of experience building resilient networking software for IoT, mobile ad hoc, and delay-tolerant systems. Based in Philadelphia, he splits his time between leading firmware and gateway work at MachineQ (Comcast) and driving mobile networking research and products at Bellerophon Mobile. His background includes DARPA and US Army CERDEC projects, significant contributions to NS-3 and NRL’s NORM implementation, and work on the CORE emulator, reflecting deep expertise in network emulation, simulation, and reliable multicast. An active open-source developer, he implemented the PacketBB (RFC 5444) library in ns-3 and maintains lightweight projects like the XMP3 XMPP server, showing a knack for pragmatic, reusable tools. He blends academic research experience from Drexel and hands-on defense and industry internships into a rare combination of experimental rigor and production-grade engineering.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Drexel University
English
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Github Skills (7)
protocols10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
network-protocol10
documentation9
ns39
memory-management9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nsnam/ns-3-dev-git
Aug 2009 - Dec 2009
GitHub read-only mirror of ns-3-dev repository, will be kept in sync with main GitLab.com repository. Please DO NOT file pull requests here; instead, file issues and merge requests at https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on adding and refining the PacketBB (RFC 5444) library within the ns-3-dev repository. This involved implementing the library, including the necessary classes and methods for packet creation, serialization, and deserialization. The user also made minor style fixes, added Doxygen comments for documentation, and addressed memory leaks.
twinedevsyncgitlabmerge-requests
jieidson/arp
Oct 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:8 releases, 37 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 9 months
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