Pier Ventre
Senior Software Engineer at NEC Laboratories Europe
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolPier Ventre is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native and programmable network infrastructures, blending academic rigor (PhD with honors) with production engineering. He has driven SDN and Cloud & Edge platforms across research labs and industry—contributing to ONOS and delivering production multicast and VLAN features used in large deployments. As a technical leader at Intel and NEC Labs Europe he led architecture discussions, mentored engineers, and bridged open-source communities with operator needs. Currently he is extending his expertise into GenAI and agentic workflows to create adaptive, intelligent infrastructure. Notably, his open-source contributions include deep protocol- and dataplane-level work (P4Runtime, VLAN behaviors) that reflect a rare comfort modifying core networking components and their tests. Based in Rome, he combines hands-on systems development with a track record of turning cutting-edge research into production-grade network services.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronics Engineering at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italian, English
Github Skills (5)
javas10
junit10
java10
jtest10
network-programming9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
opennetworkinglab/onos
Jun 2016 - Jul 2022
Open Network Operating System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:699 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Pier's commits focus on implementing and testing VLAN behavior within the ONOS project. They added a RandomVLAN behavior with unit tests and improved VLAN rewriting and encapsulation testing. The work involved modifying core networking components and unit tests to ensure proper VLAN handling. Also, implemented features and resolved issues related to the P4Runtime, which required changes in the code.
operating-system
open-edge-platform/infra-external
Apr 2025 - Jul 2025
Extensions for the Edge Infrastructure Manager
Contributions:90 reviews, 21 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 months
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