Maryam Tahhan is a Principal Engineer on the Emerging Technologies team in the Office of the CTO at Red Hat. She is currently focused on self managed inference, with previous work including contributing to the Kepler project, advancing GPU metrics collection for sustainability-aware scheduling. A long-time open source contributor and leader, Maryam has deep roots in high-performance networking. Her experience includes leading the effort to adapt AF_XDP for cloud-native use cases, maintaining DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and Cloud Native Data Plane (CNDP), integrating DPDK into Open vSwitch, and leading 2 projects within Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV): VSPERF and Barometer. She has also contributed to 5G Core and fixed–mobile convergence (FMC) initiatives.
