Bob Copeland
Principal Engineer at Amazon
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Copeland is a Principal Engineer with 26 years in software and a 20-year consulting pedigree, currently building systems at Amazon after leading senior engineering work there since 2019. He specializes in wireless networking, Linux kernel device drivers and embedded Unix systems, with deep hands-on experience implementing 802.11s mesh features and hardening ath5k driver behavior for real hardware. Bob has contributed to widely used open-source tooling such as the LastPass CLI, improving security and usability, and has fixed low-level concurrency and memory issues in wireless drivers that prevented interrupt storms and corruption. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and brings a rare blend of product-scale backend security work and low-level systems engineering. Even beyond corporate roles, he has mentored kernel interns and consulted for chipset and networking clients, demonstrating both teaching ability and practical impact on shipped hardware and security products.
26 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (35)
wpa-supplicant10
wireless10
c-programming10
c1110
linux-kernel10
c1710
mesh-network10
driver10
openssl10
encryption-algorithms10
802-1110
wifi10
hardware-interface9
system-programming9
debug9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lastpass/lastpass-cli
Oct 2014 - May 2018
LastPass command line interface tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 418 commits, 84 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bob contributed to the LastPass command-line interface tool by implementing and improving features related to security, functionality, and usability. This involved adding support for shared folder management, regular expression searches, and enhanced the display of multiple matching entries. The user also worked on improving the logging and environment variable setups while also improving the codebase by fixing return types and using a more consistent code formatting.
lastpasscommand-linecommand-line-interfacecli
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Jan 2006 - Feb 2011
Digispeaker
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & System Engineer
Back-end Developer & System EngineerContributions:157 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to the ath5k wireless driver, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements related to hardware interactions. They addressed issues such as interrupt storms, memory corruption, and incorrect handling of RX status fields. The user also implemented features such as short preamble and RTS/CTS support, and made code improvements, including refactoring, modularization, and optimization for the driver.
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