Tom Hadlaw
Software Engineer at Isovalent
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolTom Hadlaw is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native backends, DevOps tooling, and web services from Vancouver, BC. Currently at Isovalent, he contributes to eBPF-focused networking and security work—bringing practical improvements to cilium such as new commands, better logging, IPAM metrics, and kube-proxy/egress-gateway docs that make complex observability features more operable. His background includes senior engineering roles at Hootsuite and a stint at EA, and he’s shipped production services in Go and Python while maintaining CI/CD and Kubernetes infrastructure. Comfortable across full-stack concerns, Tom pairs pragmatic engineering with a focus on reliability and measurable observability improvements that reduce troubleshooting time.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at Acadia University
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Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
ebpf10
testing10
networking10
devtools10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
metric10
debug9
debugging9
automation9
automations9
linux8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Mar 2020 - Apr 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1204 reviews, 299 PRs, 242 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom's commits focus on enhancing the `cilium/cilium` repository's functionality and operability. Their contributions include the addition of new commands and improved logging capabilities for troubleshooting. They also addressed bugs related to policy and security, and they improved the documentation for kube-proxy replacement and egress-gateway features. Furthermore, the user contributed to metrics and testing improvements, including introducing new metrics related to IPAM and improving existing ones.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
tommyp1ckles/yaytracer
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 7 PRs, 18 pushes in 11 months
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