Zhenggen Xu

Sr Staff Software Engineer @Linkedin

Sunnyvale, CA, US
EMAILS
z•••@linkedin.com
MOBILE NUMBERS
+14•••••••54

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WORK HISTORY

Jan 2016 — Present

Sr Staff Software Engineer @Linkedin

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Sunnyvale, US

HW/SW strategies for Network Team at LinkedIn. • Founding member, tech lead/manager for LinkedIn Network OS (LNOS)/SONiC development team. Multi-vendor platform onboarding, LNOS deployment/upgrade at scale (with hitless upgrade), real time telemetry and auto-remediation.• SONiC community leadership/influencer/code contributor.• Fleetwide network performance tuning (TCP tuning, NIC tuning) and end-to-end QoS R&D and Deployment.• Networking Congestion Management with DCTCP and Auto-FlowLabel, BBR3 adoption for long RTT traffic. • RoCEv2 with PFC/DCQCN/ECN on various platforms and use cases.• HPC/AI frontend and backend networking with Broadcom/Nvidia/Cisco solutions for GPU Storage and Compute.• Kubernetes pod networking (Flannel, IPVLAN) and RoCE integration

EDUCATION

1996 — 2002

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Master, EE

SKILLS

Open Source SoftwareC++Software DevelopmentWhite BoxPythonLinuxChip SdkHigh Availability ClusteringTcp/IpInternet Protocol (Ip)CMplsChip ArchitectureIpIpv6QosEthernetSolarisCarrier EthernetSdnSwitchesRoutersQuality of Service (Qos)NetworkingNfvInternet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)Data CenterEmbedded Systems

ABOUT ZHENGGEN XU

I am a seasoned Senior Staff Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience designing, building, and operating hyperscale production data-center networks across silicon, network operating systems, and infrastructure. Proven technical leader in custom SONiC NOS development, switch platform bring-up, ASIC SDK/SAI integration and AI fabric design and deployment.Deep expertise spanning switch ASICs/NPUs, Linux kernel integration and driver alignment, hardware debugging, CI/CD pipelines, congestion-controlled fabrics (RoCEv2/TCP) and fleet-scale reliability engineering. Specialist Areas Network Operation System including SONiCRDMA/RoCEv2 and congestion management in HPC & storage networks Kubernetes pod networking (Flannel, IPVLAN), RoCE integration, and host networking QoS and DCTCP Fleet-wide NIC tuning and protocol stack optimizationEnd-to-end debugging and resolution of complex distributed system failures

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