I work close to the operating system, with a focus on Linux kernel development, networking, eBPF/XDP, and systems programming.

I contribute to upstream Linux and enjoy working on problems involving kernel internals, networking, memory management, device drivers, concurrency, performance, and low-level C.

I also develop systems and backend software using Go and Python, and I'm currently expanding my work with Rust.

• Upstream Linux kernel contributor
• Kernel development in C
• Linux networking and network drivers
• Kernel memory management
• Device drivers
• Kernel debugging and code analysis
• Kernel patch development and review
• Stable-kernel development and backports

Some areas I've contributed to include:

• Linux PHY — Tegra XUSB
• Linux Networking — octeontx2-pf
• Linux MM — memory-management work
• AFS — filesystem-related work

My upstream kernel contributions are authored as:

Dipendra Khadka <kdipendra88@gmail.com>

I'm particularly interested in Linux networking and high-performance packet processing.

• eBPF
• XDP
• Linux networking stack
• Network drivers
• Ethernet / NIC internals
• Packet processing
• Kernel networking
• Network performance
• Observability

Packet
↓
NIC
↓
Driver
↓
XDP / eBPF
↓
Linux Networking Stack
↓
Userspace

I enjoy understanding systems from the hardware boundary to userspace:

Hardware → Firmware → Kernel → Networking → Userspace → Services

Areas of interest:

• Operating systems
• Linux internals
• Processes & scheduling
• Concurrency
• Memory management
• Device drivers
• Networking
• Performance engineering
• Debugging & observability

Linux · Kernel · eBPF · XDP · Networking · Device Drivers

C · Go · Python · Rust

Git · GDB · QEMU · Docker · Kubernetes

• Linux kernel development
• Operating systems
• eBPF & XDP
• Linux networking
• Network performance
• Device drivers
• Systems programming
• Performance engineering
• Distributed systems
• Infrastructure

Understand the system, not just the API.

I like going deeper than the abstraction layer — understanding how software interacts with the kernel, hardware, memory, CPU, and network.

• GitHub: @Dipendra333
• Email: kdipendra88@gmail.com

⭐ Feel free to explore my repositories and experiments in Linux, networking, eBPF/XDP, and systems engineering.