Brian Neradt
Software Engineer at Yahoo
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Neradt is a pragmatic software engineer with over a decade of C and C++ experience and six years in recent professional roles, currently contributing to Apache Traffic Server at Yahoo on HTTP/2 and TLS features. He emphasizes high-quality, well-tested code—using gtest/Catch for unit tests and Python for end-to-end testing and CI—and has driven projects that improved session window handling and configurable trailer behavior in a widely used open-source caching proxy. Previously at Riverbed he implemented protocol optimizations with ~90% test coverage and led CI and scrum processes, blending hands-on engineering with team facilitation. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he combines low-level networking expertise with a taste for practical automation and collaborative development.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (10)
mtls10
http10
c-language10
proxy-server10
tls1210
cprogramming-language10
tls1310
libtls10
testing10
cmake7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1654 reviews, 466 commits, 1199 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily worked on the traffic server's code, focusing on implementing features related to HTTP/2 and TLS. They made improvements to how HTTP/2 session windows are handled for small sizes. Furthermore, the user added functionality to handle the `proxy.config.http.drop_chunked_trailers` configuration. They also added improvements to the testing framework.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
bneradt/trafficserver
Oct 2019 - Apr 2025
Apache Traffic Server
Contributions:16 reviews, 9 PRs, 2037 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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