Networks, radios, Tesla coils, and 8-bit sound. Wellington, NZ · vandervecken.com

Engineer/experimenter — 14 yrs at Google (network research/SDN), independent since 2019; consultant + hardware hacker. Python · C · C++ · Go · 6502/68HC11 asm

• SDN/Networking — founding contributor to FAUCET (production OpenFlow controller); dovesnap (Docker OVS plugin), pipette (SDN/NFV coprocessor), faucetconfrpc. FAUCET deployed/cited by NATO STO coalition tactical networks (ICMCIS 2025), Sandia National Laboratories (2019), and IQT Labs Defensive 5G (DEF CON 30, 2022). Also colatrl (eBPF CLAT/464XLAT, originally by Maciej Żenczykowski), Wireshark contributor (IPDC dissector, Lucent/Ascend trace parsing).
• RF/SDR — maintainer of gamutRF (SDR scanner/collector); samples2djidroneid (DJI DroneID from I/Q).
• ML — preframr (transformer that composes SID register streams), RF signal classification, sentinel-solver (automated solver for The Sentinel).
• Tesla coils — chime_red2 (musical Tesla coil controller: MIDI-driven fixed-point DSP on Arduino Due / SAMD21).
• Glitch/graphics — rutt-etra-cv2 (Rutt/Etra scan processor as an OpenCV filter), nbtvencoder (software televisor: NBTV encode/decode to WAV), pyvmancer (LZX Videomancer driver); Vectrex/PiTrex tooling: vekterm (baremetal PiTrex receiver that boots a Pi straight into drawing vectors on a real Vectrex), pyvterm (drives a PiTrex/Vectrex over serial from Python).
• C64 / chiptune — Vessel (high-performance C64 MIDI interface), asid-vice (VICE with ASID support).

• Bailey & Stuart, Faucet: Deploying SDN in the Enterprise, Communications of the ACM / ACM Queue, Jan 2017.
• Bailey, Pemberton, Linton, Pelsser, Bush, Enforcing RPKI-based routing policy on the data plane at an internet exchange, HotSDN @ SIGCOMM 2014.
• Stringer, Pemberton, Fu, Lorier, Nelson, Bailey, Corrêa, Rothenberg, Cardigan: SDN distributed routing fabric going live at an Internet exchange, IEEE ISCC 2014.
• Long, Bailey, McVay, Carnegie, Kapur, Improving the Musical Expressiveness of Tesla Coils with Software, ICMC 2015.