Summary
Erik Alapää is a seasoned low-latency and systems software engineer with 15+ years of experience building kernel-near networking, real‑time C/C++ systems, and embedded firmware across telecom, cloud, and measurement domains. He has led technical teams at Google (Borg/SRE) and NVIDIA, taught Modern C++ internally, and now focuses on user-space TCP/UDP stacks, FPGA network controllers and TXPIO for ultra-fast trading workloads. His background spans algorithm development, FPGA software, and Linux kernel work—often pushing hardware-software boundaries like network hardware timestamping and Mode 4 LACP bonding. Comfortable in both research and production environments, he pairs deep systems knowledge with practical integration experience across AWS/Azure/OCI and edge datacenter deployments. Based in Zurich, he combines academic rigor (Licentiate in Mathematics, Engineering Physics) with decades of field-proven engineering in mission-critical systems. An understated strength is his habit of diving into assembly and compiler output to squeeze predictable performance from constrained platforms.
15 years of coding experience
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