# Laurent Chavey

> AI is your new puppy. It needs you to feed it tokens and to pick up after its messes.

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

Software Engineer Manager  and individual contributor with a demonstrated impacts working in the computer software industry.

## Work Experience
### Engineer @ Mercari, Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present | Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Looking at alternatives to the big LLM vendors for AI assisted coding, using local hosted LLM.

### Senior Staff Engineer and Manager @ Google
Jan 2005 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, Tokyo
Senior Staff Software Engineer /  Engineering Manager

Linux Kernel team - Platforms / Cluster Management:  Tech Lead Manager for teams releasing kernels to Google servers. Developed and implemented a new release  process. Worked with Eng Prod and SRE teams to implement the testing and rollout to production. Worked with the HW/platform teams to develop fast rollout of kernel modules.  

Linux Kernel Node Networking, Storage and Performance teams.   Technical lead and Manager. Teams developed  drivers and optimization to the linux kernel network stack, infrastructure applications for Cloud and Production  environments. Packet engineering, packet host shaper and Network Benchmark system teams. Kernel development for Google Front End servers, kernel storage stack, storage analysis tools, iSCSI, fuse and ext4 filesystem. 

Lead the adoption of Network Link Aggregation for all of Google’s production machines. Lead the adoption of  CDP / LLDP for all of Google’s data center host network monitoring and configuration. Lead the development of data center network sniffers for intrusion detection.  developer of host network driver for new platforms.

Chrome OS Velocity team - Chrome OS / Eng Velocity:  Manager of Chrome OS developers tools teams.    

Local Contributions team - GEO Smart UGC:  Tech Lead and Manager of Geo UGC Local Photos, Local Videos and Local Reviews teams. Teams developed backend and front end android and web applications for Google Maps review, photo and video. 

TAO team, Tools, Architecture, Optimization: Tech Lead and Manager for Cloud Profiler, Continuous Profiler, Google Wide Profiler and ChromeOS Wide Profiler teams. Teams developed performance analytics tools to optimize Google servers fleet-wide CPU and RAM resources and tools for Google Cloud customers to profile their applications.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer/ Manager @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Roseville, CA
Network Drivers / Switch Firmware / ASIC Verification / Routing Protocols /  Telco / Hardware

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Nishan Systems
Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 | Sacramento, California, United States
Fiber Channel to iSCSI / iFCP gateway.
Frame Transparent Layer for storage switch (network processor based).
Virtual storage scsi stack.
creator of Nishan Intelligent Storage Protocol

### Engineer Scientist @ Agilent Technologies
Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 | Roseville, CA
Fiber channel, drivers and SDK, Tachyon SDK, Tachyon hardware offloads , asic bringup, ASIC verification, iSCSI initiator and target offload and drivers.

Original implementor of  rfc3720.

### Senior Staff Engineer @ HP
Jan 1996 – Jan 2000 | Roseville
Network Driver development.
Storage driver development (Fiber Channel).
Fiber Channel driver development (Linux, Windows, WindRiver, SCO)

### Software Developer @ Hansen Software
Jan 1990 – Jan 1996 | Greater Sacramento
Robot camera software development.
VMS to Ultrix gateway with telson bridge
Oracle DB application development.
Unix / VMS / Window development.

### Computer Technician @ Compu Info
Jan 1986 – Jan 1990
Build, Installation, Repair PC. Software installation. Custom development of application for small business.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Network
University of Delaware

### Postgraduate Degree in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
The George Washington University

### Advanced Project Management in Project Management
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/laurent-chavey

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Last updated: 2026-04-11