Bobby Powers
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBobby Powers is a Staff Software Engineer at Stripe with eight years of professional experience building resilient infrastructure and distributed systems from startups to large cloud platforms. He combines practical production experience—designing high-availability services and scaling EC2-based fleets—with academic research as a fifth-year grad student in UMass Amherst’s PLASMA Lab focused on systems and programming languages. His work spans memory-efficient tooling (notably contributions to the Mesh memory allocator that reduces C/C++ footprints) to cloud testing frameworks for concurrency and fault tolerance. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare blend of deep systems debugging, C/C++ performance tuning, and service-oriented architecture at scale. Colleagues know him for tackling subtle root causes in legacy code while enabling measurable improvements in latency, stability, and memory usage.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.Phil, System Dynamics, M.Phil, System Dynamics at Universitetet i Bergen (UiB)Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBS, Environmental Studies, BS, Environmental Studies at State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and ForestryUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (17)
bitmap10
c-language10
memory-management10
bitmaps10
cprogramming-language10
allocator10
main-memory9
exceptions9
caching9
python9
warnings9
lru6
mmap6
bash6
allocation6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
plasma-umass/Mesh
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
A memory allocator that automatically reduces the memory footprint of C/C++ applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 78 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bobby primarily contributed to the memory allocator library, adding features and modifying core components. Their work involved implementing new bitmap functionalities for memory management within the miniheap and global meshing heap. The user also worked on re-enabling non-memfd_create functionality, and adding an in-bounds API to the mesh library. These contributions suggest a focus on improving the allocator's core functionality and integration.
memory-managementmemorymemory-allocatorcppmemory-footprint
bobby-stripe/go-pcre
Oct 2021 - Apr 2024
Perl Compatible Regular Expression shim for Go
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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