Abdul Wasey
Network and firmware engineer. I work on secure boot for Qualcomm and OpenWrt platforms at Quantum Networks, and spend most of my own time in the Linux data path and on infrastructure I run myself.
Recently that has meant xdp-bfd, a BFD offload that keeps failure detection accurate under load that makes userspace daemons flap, and the fixes it produced in FRRouting's BFD daemon.
Writing
Projects
- BFD offload for Linux, with the RFC 5880 fast path in XDP.
- Two-node Proxmox cluster running 30+ services behind one reverse proxy.
- APNIC-funded dual-stack rollout across the NITK Surathkal network.
Open Source
- Three merged fixes in the BFD daemon, from six bugs reported.
- Runtime-variable support for conditional JWT enforcement, merged in v2.4.0.
- Root-caused a GUI hang from blocking SMART queries.