Dave Tucker is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat leading networking projects within the Emerging Technologies group in the Office of the CTO. Starting his career in network engineering, Dave shifted to software development with a focus on Software Defined Networking in 2014. His journey through the tech industry is marked by a unique blend of technical marketing and product management expertise, alongside significant engineering roles. A notable milestone in Dave's career was his co-founding of Socketplane, a networking startup that was acquired by Docker in 2015. Currently, Dave is the driving force behind the bpfman project at Red Hat, which focuses on enhancing the security and deployment of eBPF programs on Linux and Kubernetes. Dave is an active Rust programmer and a recognized speaker at industry conferences, where he shares his knowledge and insights into network software development.
