Wenda N
Network R&D Engineer at ByteDance Networking
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWenda N is a Network R&D Engineer with a Ph.D. from Tsinghua and over a decade of experience building low-latency, ASIC-near networking systems for datacenter switches and RDMA technologies. He blends deep protocol expertise across InfiniBand, RoCE and iWARP with kernel-level software and device-driver development, having worked extensively on SONiC, SAI and MMU/QoS features. At ByteDance and Microsoft he shipped advanced ASIC features—PFC watchdog hardware offload, sFlow offload, TCAM sharing and RDMA counters—while contributing significant backend changes to the widely used open-source SONiC and SAI projects. His background in optical networking and a commercial POXN prototype give him a rare cross-domain view of both photonics and silicon switch architectures. A self-described "kernel hacker," he pairs standards-driven design with hands-on experimentation on NICs and ASICs, and remains active in the research community as a reviewer and conference TPC member.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronic Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityShanghai Yucai High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (42)
c-language10
buffer10
buffering10
sonic10
python10
redis10
jinja210
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
abstraction10
schema-design10
qos10
abstraction-layer10
c1110
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-mgmt
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 149 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Wenda primarily contributed to the configuration management aspects of the SONiC project. Their work includes fixing port alias mapping for specific hardware models and adding logic to generate global pause frames. They also integrated the global pause frame generation into existing scripts and refactored and updated existing tests to use incremental counter values, focusing on avoiding deprecated methods. This suggests a focus on networking infrastructure and testing within the SONiC environment.
configuration-managementansibleconfigurationsonic
sonic-net/sonic-swss
Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
SONiC Switch State Service (SwSS)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 57 commits, 63 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Wenda's primary contribution involves enhancing the SONiC Switch State Service (SwSS) for Quality of Service (QoS) management. They added the capability to configure the WRED drop probability for different packet colors and ensured default values are applied if not specified. The user also implemented support for enabling/disabling ECN on a queue and modified the watermark polling interval. Furthermore, the user added egress ACL table group creation during PFCWD stats list installment.
sonicswitch
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