Bryce Kahle
Staff Software Engineer - EBPF Platform
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBryce Kahle is a Staff Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 14 years of experience building high-performance networking, observability, and platform systems. He has progressed from embedded and systems engineering into leadership roles at Datadog, where he now focuses on the eBPF platform and previously led network and agent teams. Bryce brings deep hands-on expertise across backend, DevOps, and firmware domains—contributions to notable open-source projects like cilium/ebpf and DataDog/datadog-agent show his focus on BTF/CO-RE, connection tracking, and runtime efficiency. He has a track record of improving reliability and scalability at Netlify and Particle, including automating CI/CD and migrating platforms to Kubernetes and containerized deployments. Known for precise engineering and pragmatic leadership, he often drives cross-disciplinary improvements from kernel-level tooling up to user-facing services.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English, German
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Github Skills (79)
ebpf10
testing10
firmware10
authentication10
bash10
websocket10
c1110
c1710
automation10
embedded10
rest-api10
wpf10
javascript10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
sockjs/sockjs-client
Apr 2014 - Sep 2022
WebSocket emulation - Javascript client
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 3 reviews, 468 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bryce's commits primarily involve fixing references, refactoring code, and adding new tests to the project. These changes included updating code documentation, modifying test files, and improving the test structure. Additionally, the user helped update the testing setup, contributing to the overall quality and maintainability of the SockJS-client.
emulationjavascriptwebsocketsockjsreal-time
sockjs/sockjs-node
May 2014 - Dec 2021
WebSocket emulation - Node.js server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 161 commits, 39 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bryce primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and security of the SockJS-node server, a Node.js WebSocket emulation server. Their commits focused on addressing CORS issues, protecting against JSONP exploits, removing unused parameters, and upgrading dependencies. These changes involved modifications to the core transport mechanisms and related examples.
emulationnodejs-serverwebsocketsockjsjavascript
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