Toshiaki Takada is a Lead Engineer based in San Jose with over two decades of hands-on experience building and operating networking software on Linux/BSD platforms. He specializes in IP routing and core protocols—having implemented OSPFv2/v3 and IS-IS—and brings deep protocol-level expertise across IPv4/IPv6, BGP, MPLS and related technologies. His career spans engineering and principal roles at networking and observability firms (Target, Ciena, Cradlepoint, ThousandEyes, Splunk, A10, IP Infusion), consistently delivering production-grade systems in C/C++ and modern languages like Go and Rust. An early free-software contributor to GNU Zebra, he pairs low-level kernel and DPDK experience with cloud-native tooling (Docker, KVM) and relational/embedded databases. Known for blending protocol design with pragmatic delivery, he recently augmented his academic foundation with an MS in Computer Science while continuing to shape application delivery and distributed networking stacks.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at The University of Electro-Communications
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Contributions:43 PRs, 67 pushes, 48 branches in 1 year 10 months
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