Brandon Williams
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Mysten Labs
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Williams is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend and infrastructure systems, currently focused on Rust and fully remote tech leadership roles. He has driven core infrastructure work at Mysten Labs and contributed to prominent open-source projects like the Sui smart contract platform and the quinn QUIC implementation, improving modularity, networking, and memory safety. Previously a staff engineer at Facebook and an engineer at Google, he blends large-scale distributed-systems experience with security-minded development from contributions to projects like Git and Diem. Brandon’s background spans ASIC and hardware roots at NVIDIA through to cloud-scale software, giving him a practical edge in systems-level problem solving and protocol design. He prefers not to be contacted unless for remote leadership or Rust opportunities, and often surfaces non-obvious wins such as subtle memory-leak fixes and protocol-extension designs that improve long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (41)
asynchronous10
git10
async10
testing10
memory-management10
bash10
c1110
networking10
c1710
network-protocol10
quic10
build-automation10
blockchain10
protocols10
rust10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
diem/diem
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1160 reviews, 893 commits, 260 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brandon made several contributions focused on improving the security and reliability of the Diem blockchain. The commits involved modifying the RPC failure handling within health checks and adding unit tests for converting request and response items. Further contributions included updating scripts related to nightly features and adding several git checks. The primary technology focus of the commits was on blockchain-related back-end development with a strong emphasis on improving code quality and testing.
diemfinancialtrustedethereumblockchain
MystenLabs/sui
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Sui, a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language
Role in this project:Backend & Infrastructure Engineer
Backend & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:1729 reviews, 577 commits, 807 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily reorganized and restructured various binaries and components within the Sui platform, improving the project's build process and modularity. Their contributions include updates to RPC and REST server functionality as well as modifications to the wallet component, indicating an involvement with core infrastructure and API functionality. The user also made substantial changes to the networking aspects of the project by converting several internal network interfaces to use gRPC.
ethereumcontractsmart-contract-platformprogramming-languagesui
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