Xiaodong Xu
Distinguished Engineer at Netskope
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolXiaodong Xu is a Distinguished Engineer with 14 years of deep experience building high-performance networking and security data planes, currently driving data plane services at Netskope. He has led teams and technical programs across SSE/SASE, SD-WAN, VPN/IPsec, and DPDK/VPP implementations, blending hands-on kernel and TCP/IP expertise with product-facing delivery. His background includes upgrading routing engines, IPv6 and netfilter work, and operational ownership of deployment and monitoring pipelines for cloud and on-prem releases. Xiaodong’s career traces a steady progression from low-level forwarding and L2/L3 protocols at H3C to leading DPDK-based research and production data planes at WatchGuard, Lookout, and Fortra. Based in Seattle, he pairs systems-level craftsmanship with people leadership, often surfacing non-obvious optimizations at the kernel and datapath layers that materially improve throughput and stability. He holds a Master’s in Software Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology and brings a pragmatic focus on shipping secure, scalable network services.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor, Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityMaster, Software Engineering, Master, Software Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
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