Trevor Tao
Staff Software Engineer at Arm
Minhang District, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolTrevor Tao is a Staff Software Engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture and over 15 years focused on computer and cloud networking, currently leading edge and arm-focused networking work at Arm after a decade of contributions at IBM. He specializes in SDN/NFV, container networking (Calico, Cilium) with eBPF acceleration, service mesh (Istio), DNSaaS and hybrid/edge cloud solutions, and has driven both product engineering and research—authoring 12+ patents and 14+ papers. At Arm he benchmarks and tunes CNIs and led Akraino IEC blueprints, upstreaming patches to high-profile projects like Calico and Istio and enabling arm64 support and BPF improvements in projectcalico. Notably, he proposed a novel F-DOSE overlay switching approach and has a track record of turning protocol research into implementable open-source contributions across OpenStack, OpenDaylight and LF Edge ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Architecture, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Architecture at National University of Defense Technology
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/calico
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:5 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Trevor primarily focused on enhancing the project's support for the arm64 architecture, as evidenced by multiple commits. They modified build scripts and deployment configurations to accommodate arm64 systems, including adjustments to Kubernetes deployment and image handling. Their work extended to modifying existing infrastructure code to enable BPF logging in the context of arm64. Further contributions included adjustments to MTU and BPF interface pattern recognition, essential for network configuration and performance on various hardware architectures.
multi-clustersecuritynetworkingsdnvirtual-network
TrevorTaoARM/cilium
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
API-aware Networking and Security using eBPF and XDP
Contributions:61 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 2 months
apisaltrouterosnetwork-automationsecurity
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