Bryan Barkley
Senior Staff Engineer at LinkedIn
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Barkley is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Mountain View with 14 years of experience building robust backend systems at scale. Since 2018 he has driven architectural and delivery work at LinkedIn, focusing on reliability and HTTP request handling in complex distributed environments. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed subtle, production-impacting bugs in the popular Play Framework—improving handler routing, execution contexts, Gzip behavior, host header handling, and idle timeouts. He combines deep systems debugging skills with a pragmatic approach to incremental improvements that reduce operational risk. Bryan’s background spans a long-standing engineering career rooted in rigorous problem solving dating back to his undergraduate studies at Rice. He’s the kind of engineer who surfaces and resolves the small protocol and edge-case issues that prevent outages.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Bachelor at Rice UniversityRedondo Union High School
English
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Github Skills (16)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
javas10
playframework10
java10
scala10
jvm9
restful9
reactive8
tomcat6
scaffolding6
jython6
jboss6
grails6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
playframework/playframework
Oct 2013 - Aug 2016
The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 19 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Play Framework. Their work included resolving an issue related to finding the Scala library with alternate naming, correcting a problem where `onHandlerNotFound` was not receiving requests modified by filters, addressing an issue with the `HttpExecutionContext`, and resolving an issue related to the `GzipFilter`. Additionally, the user worked on improving HTTP request handling, including addressing an issue with overwriting the host header and adding idle timeout support.
restfulplay-frameworkframeworkplayframeworkjvm
bbarkley/playframework
Apr 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:28 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 2 months
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