Brian Szmyd
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at eBay
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Szmyd is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 13 years of hands-on experience building storage, firmware, and distributed systems, currently developing eBay’s next-generation Software Defined Storage platform from Denver. He brings deep protocol expertise across user and kernel space—SCSI, TCP/IP (v4/v6), LDAP, Kerberos and HTTP/SPDY—and a strong C/C++ (C++11/14/17, Boost) and POSIX/Linux background. Past roles include architecting scalable block/object/file storage, embedded Linux and SCSI subsystems, and cloud management tooling, often translating customer requirements into production-ready designs. Brian contributes to the Conan Center Index on GitHub, improving cross-platform C/C++ packaging and build recipes, reflecting his attention to portability and build robustness. Known for integrating security, storage protocol fidelity and pragmatic engineering, he combines low-level systems craftsmanship with product-focused delivery.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Colorado State University
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Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
conan-io/conan-center-index
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the recipes within the Conan Center Index, adding support for various libraries, including isa-l, userspace-rcu, forestdb, zmarok-semver, jungle, and nuraft. Their work involved creating and modifying Conan recipes, which included defining build configurations, handling dependencies, and integrating external libraries. The user also addressed review comments, fixed compiler issues, and improved the recipes for different operating systems and architectures.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
eBay/sisl
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
High Performance C++ data structures and utilities
Contributions:7 releases, 88 reviews, 409 commits in 4 years 11 months
cppc-plus-plusperformancehash-tabledata-structures
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