Timothy Rozet
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Rozet is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of focused experience in networking, cloud-native infrastructure, and test automation, now at NVIDIA after leading OpenShift SDN and OVN-Kubernetes at Red Hat. He combines deep systems-level expertise—from DPDK and OVS to Kubernetes CNI design—with a strong track record of improving reliability in distributed control planes and CI/E2E environments. Timothy’s open-source contributions include conformance testing for OpenShift, robust fixes in ovn-kubernetes and libovsdb, and performance-driven updates to the BESS software switch, reflecting an emphasis on compatibility, observability, and reconnection resilience. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping low-level fixes, he has repeatedly bridged vendor-grade networking requirements with cloud orchestration projects like OpenStack/OPNFV and automation for carrier-grade systems. Based in Apex, NC, he brings a practical, test-first mindset that often surfaces in tooling and validation work that prevents subtle production regressions.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
c-language10
cni10
networking10
cicd10
go10
openshift10
vsdb10
odb10
kubernetes-pods10
dpdk10
error-handling10
cprogramming-language10
devops10
concurrency10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
A robust Kubernetes networking platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3202 reviews, 884 commits, 1559 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Timothy's primary contributions focused on enhancing the OVN-Kubernetes networking platform. Their work involved identifying and fixing issues related to the detection of loopback addresses, and removing code duplication. They also enabled and configured the E2E CI environment, which involved setting up a Kubernetes cluster using KIND and running conformance tests. Additionally, the user implemented validation checks for host subnet prefix lengths.
k8skubernetesovncnicni-plugin
ovn-kubernetes/libovsdb
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
An OVSDB Client Library written in Golang
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 22 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily focused on improving the reliability and synchronization of the `libovsdb` library. They addressed issues related to cache inconsistencies, particularly during updates and reconnects. The user implemented error handling to reconnect and rebuild the cache when out of sync, and they improved the handling of transactions during reconnection. Further, they implemented the "wait" method within the server component.
golangclient-libraryovsdb
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