Michael Coyle Email & Phone Number

4301 Highway 7 Suite 190 St. Louis Park, MN 55416 USA

* Lead developer for line-rate multi-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet network record and playback appliance (C++14, Boost, NUMA) using NewWave's FPGA-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC on Intel Xeon based platforms.* Software Architect for 25/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet record and playback appliance using New Wave's FPGA-based 25/40/100GE NICs.* Migrated development team.

Plymouth, Minnesota

Player/coach role for a team of six providing new platform support for Isilon’s scale-out NAS products using FreeBSD, C/C++ and Python on Intel Xeon based platforms.

Led a very small, tightly focused team developing a custom FCoE solution (HP's FlexFabric module) from early concept stage through release qualification testing. Received CEO Performance Award for my contributions to the project.Part of small team working to integrate Coverity into our engineering processes.

Project lead for IPv6.Part of a team working on first fault-tolerant director-class FC switch (SANbox 9200) for QLogic Reduced software build times by > 70%, without spending a penny on hardware, via a combination of parallel make, distcc, and spare cycles on engineers desktop computers. Engineers now routinely run 'make -j 66':)

OSPFv3 developer working on LVL7's FASTPATH product.

Founding member of dynamic routing protocol software team for start-up in terabit routing. Principal responsibility was as Technical Lead developing IS-IS dynamic routing protocol for Tier 1 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for IPv4, IPv6, and traffic engineering extensions for MPLS. Began as a team of 1, grew to a team of 5 spread across two sites which.

Continuation of NetStar & Ascend Communications, via accquisition.

Continuation of NetStar employment, via accquisition by Ascend Communications. NetStar became the High Performance Networking Division (HPND) of Ascend Communications working on the GRF 400 and GRF 1600 products.Deployment experience at Tier 1 ISPs.

Worked on ATM-OC3 and ATM-OC3/Q media cards in NetStar GigaRouter gigabit IP router. Focused on TransSwitch SAR driver, IP over ATM protocol work including IETF RFC 1483, RFC 1755 and RFC 2225, plus upgrading from UNI 3.1 and 4.0 signaling for switched virtual circuits based on Trillium's protocol stack.

Maintained and enhanced a macroscopic freeway traffic simulator used to evaluate the effectiveness of various ramp metering algorithms under study by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.