Todd Foggoa
Principal Engineer at SpaceX
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Foggoa is a Principal Engineer based in the Greater Seattle Area with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and optimizing packet-forwarding systems for service-provider grade routers. He specializes in dataplane programming across custom network processors and virtualized environments, with deep expertise in IPv4/IPv6/MPLS, routing protocols, microcode, and firmware. Todd has led architecture and implementation at Cisco (including Silicon One and ASR/8000 platforms) and now applies that systems-level rigor at SpaceX, mentoring teams while shipping performance-critical C and assembly code. He combines a hardware-centric mindset—understanding custom ASICs and microcode—with practical software practices like build-system migrations to Bazel and DPDK-based dataplane work. A lifelong learner and tool-builder, he frequently creates diagnostic and analysis tools to wring out maximum efficiency from complex distributed networking stacks.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Computer Engineering, BEng Computer Engineering at Dalhousie University
Github Skills (8)
scalable7
bazel7
extensible7
bazel-rules6
build-system6
starlark3
documentation-generator2
skylark2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vpp-dev/vpp
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Working copy of vpp
Contributions:13 commits in 3 months
vppworking-copy
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