Benjamin Fry
Principal Software Architect at Salesforce
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Fry is a Software Engineer II with 13 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and tooling, currently based in Pennsylvania and advancing through roles at Portage Learning. He brings a systems-level mindset to software and data analysis, with deep practical experience in C, C++, Java and a recent focus on Rust for performance-sensitive networking and cryptography projects. His open-source contributions include enhancing rust-openssl with RSA and PKCS#12 functionality and improving a Rust DNS client/server (hickory-dns) with DoH and CI optimizations—work that demonstrates both cryptographic insight and attention to build/test reliability. Benjamin pairs hands-on engineering with operational experience from AV and IT support roles, which informs his emphasis on robustness and usability in production. He holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Geneva College and has a track record of translating low-level protocol and key-management improvements into safer, more maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Vassar College
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Github Skills (27)
domain-name10
continuous-integration10
testing10
key-management10
cin10
rsa10
dns10
openssl10
cryptography10
dns-sd10
rust10
communication-protocol9
pkcs9
protocols9
architectures8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hickory-dns/hickory-dns
Aug 2015 - Jan 2023
A Rust based DNS client, server, and resolver
Role in this project:
Back-end & Infrastructure Engineer
Back-end & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:72 releases, 750 reviews, 1589 commits in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the development of a Rust-based DNS client, server, and resolver. Their work included implementing and optimizing core features of the DNS server, client, and resolver, such as improving test harnesses for reliability and speed, and integrating DNS-over-HTTPS functionality. Further contributions involved setting up and configuring continuous integration tests and resolving issues related to compilation, potentially enhancing build times and code quality.
mdnsresolvedns-clientdnsresolver
sfackler/rust-openssl
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
OpenSSL bindings for Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 7 PRs, 57 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed extensively to the `rust-openssl` repository, focusing on enhancing RSA key functionality. Their work involved adding features to directly get and set RSA key material, including setting and retrieving the key modulus and exponent. They also introduced the ability to create `EcKey` instances from `EcPoint` and public keys, demonstrating a solid understanding of cryptographic key management. Furthermore, the user implemented PKCS#12 creation and DER serialization functionality, which aids in secure key storage and certificate management.
rustopenssl-bindingsopenssl
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