# Adrian Ziegler-Millard

> Software Engineer at Dropbox

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adrianzieglermillard

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Filesystem team

### Software Engineer @ AeroFS by Redbooth
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California
Worked on Redbooth, a collaboration tool, and AeroFS, a self hostable Dropbox equivalent

• implemented a lossless compressor of filesystem metadata transforms, reducing the impact of a significant AeroFS architecture bottleneck (Java, Docker)
• iterated on the code and infrastructure for a large Ruby on Rails app
• built various core AeroFS and Redbooth microservices (Golang, Java, Docker)

### Embedded Software Engineering Intern @ Sandvine
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• primarily worked on a new feature allowing for programmable packet capture on specialized network processing hardware at 300 Gbps on Sandvine's PTS32K Box
• wrote C++ code on a BSD-based controller responsible for compiling high level filter expressions into ultra high speed content addressable memory (TCAM) keys, allowing for sophisticated filtering to occur at line rate
• developed microcode for the Tilera NP5 network processing chip matching all incoming packets against TCAM keys, sending matching packets to the capture devices

### Software Engineering Intern @ Coho Data
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Vancouver, Canada Area
Coho Data is a startup attempting to replace monolithic enterprise storage systems with networked linux clusters. 

• built their product's network neighbour discovery system, including a custom implementation of the proprietary CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) (Python)
• wrote the code which enabled live and partial networking reconfiguration of their product (previously the networking controller had to be restarted for configuration to take effect) - which included significant changes to the real-time packet processing system that ran on an Arista switch (Python, C)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Blue Coat Systems acquired by Symantec
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• wrote a network traffic generator for the video streaming family of protocols (RTMP*), capable of Gigabits/s of network traffic
• forked and iterated on a high performance media streaming server, adding new network protocols and making changes to others (C++)
• made significant changes to the test automation infrastructure (Python, MySQL) to support the operation of the traffic generator and statistic collection

### Software Engineering Intern @ Exinda Networks
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Exinda produces a high end network appliance. I was responsible for designing a new
DRY test automation framework (Python) which, based on a high-level test specification, would:

• map test requirements to physical and virtual resources such as traffic generators,
routers, and Exinda appliances
• configure these resources based on test specifications (appliance configuration,
routing table setup, installing software, etc.)
• control the resources to execute the test and evaluate the results

### Software Engineering Intern @ Exinda Networks
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• wrote a network traffic generator based on packet flow replay with sophisticated packet modification, simulating the traffic generated by hundreds of thousands of simultaneous client/server pairs running arbitrary protocols
•  later experimental version used TUN/TAP and a custom NAT implementation


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adrian-ziegler-millard-3822ba163

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Last updated: 2026-03-29