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Senior Director of Engineering at Google Cloud building planet-scale networking.

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	Linux Kernel Development 4.34 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Linux by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Arnold Robbins 3.92 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 1997 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Linux System Programming: Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library 4.25 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 2007 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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