Vincenzo Maffione

Italy

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Vincenzo Maffione is a software engineer with 13 years of expertise in high-performance networking, virtualization and Linux kernel networking, and is a FreeBSD committer for the kernel networking subsystem. He has deep hands‑on experience accelerating datapaths—most notably contributing netmap and VALE support to Open vSwitch to enable very fast packet I/O. Based in Italy, he combines rigorous academic training (Master’s and dual diplomas from Università di Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, all with top honors) with production-grade systems development. Vincenzo is comfortable working at the intersection of OS internals and networking stacks, delivering pragmatic optimizations that matter under heavy load. Colleagues rely on him for low-level performance tuning and clean integration of complex kernel-space features into networking projects.

13 years of coding experience

First Level Diploma, Computer Engineering, 100/100 cum laude, First Level Diploma, Computer Engineering, 100/100 cum laude at Scuola Superiore 'Sant' Anna' di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento

Second Level Diploma, Computer Engineering, 100/100 cum laude, Second Level Diploma, Computer Engineering, 100/100 cum laude at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 cum laude, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 cum laude at Università di Pisa

English, Italian

Github Skills (6)

c1710

c1110

kernel-mode9

kernel9

openvswitch9

networking8

Programming languages (6)

C++CMakefileJavaScriptLuaPython

Github contributions (5)

luigirizzo/netmap

Sep 2015 - Aug 2022

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/netmap

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:1824 commits, 53 PRs, 287 pushes in 7 years

Contributions summary:Vincenzo implemented support for netmap, a fast packet I/O framework, in the Open vSwitch datapath code. Their work included integrating a new virtual network device (VALE) to accelerate datapath performance. The contributions included the implementation of a custom lookup function and other configurations. The focus was on improving the performance of the Open vSwitch datapath with netmap and VALE.

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rlite/rlite

Jan 2016 - Sep 2019

A light RINA implementation. Documentation is available in REAME.md (see below).

Contributions:4831 commits, 43 PRs, 1300 pushes in 3 years 9 months

rinalightnetworkinglinuxkernel-modules

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