Volodymyr Samotiy
Tech Lead Senior Software Engineer at PLVision
Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolVolodymyr Samotiy is a Tech Lead and Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and maintaining network-focused backend and DevOps tooling. Based in Ukraine, he leads engineering efforts at PLVision and has deep expertise in SONiC, contributing substantive fixes and integrations across sonic-buildimage, sonic-utilities, and sonic-swss. His work centers on Mellanox platform support—updating SDKs, firmware and SAI versions—and improving reliability of VNET routing, PFC storm detection, and vendor SDK interoperability. Comfortable editing low-level build systems and production utilities, he bridges firmware/SDK details with higher-level network service logic. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, hardware-aware solutions that reduce production incidents and clarify platform behaviors. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Lviv Polytechnics and brings a blend of systems engineering rigor and hands-on open-source impact.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at State University 'Lviv Polytechnics'
Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (34)
debugging10
network-configuration10
debug10
mellanox10
develop10
c-language10
sonic10
python10
firmware10
build-system10
abstraction10
abstraction-layer10
makefile10
networking10
lua10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 63 commits, 144 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Volodymyr primarily contributed to the `sonic-buildimage` repository by updating firmware, SDK, and SAI versions related to Mellanox networking hardware. Their work focused on integrating and maintaining the correct versions of Mellanox software components within the build system. They addressed various issues and implemented fixes related to port behavior, warm boot processes, and hardware functionality. The commits involve modifications to makefiles and other build configuration files, updating the versions of the Mellanox SDK, SAI, and firmware.
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
sonic-net/sonic-swss
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
SONiC Switch State Service (SwSS)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 25 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Volodymyr primarily contributed to the `sonic-swss` repository by implementing and modifying backend functionalities related to VNET and PFC (Priority Flow Control) storm detection. Their work included fixing VNET route priority issues and removing deprecated BMTOR implementations. Additionally, the user updated PFC storm detection logic for Mellanox platforms, migrating from quanta-based calculations to microsecond-based calculations. Furthermore, they added support for VLAN host interfaces, improving the infrastructure needed for the VNET ping tool.
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