Bryan Davidson
Software Development Manager, Kinesis Data Streams
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Davidson is a seasoned software development manager with 9 years of experience leading engineering teams across AWS services, Amazon Robotics, and Twitter, now overseeing Kinesis Data Streams from Seattle. He combines hands-on systems engineering roots (starting at IBM and as an SDE at AWS) with program and people leadership to deliver large-scale, reliable cloud infrastructure like Elastic Load Balancing and Elastic File System. Bryan has a strong security mindset demonstrated by contributions to the widely used s2n-tls library, implementing FIPS-compliant cipher preferences and cryptographic PRF improvements. Known for clear communication and cross-functional collaboration, he repeatedly moves between deeply technical roles and managerial responsibilities to unblock teams and drive measurable outcomes. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Clarkson University and brings a practical, compliance-aware approach to building production-grade distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as a problem solver who prefers shipping pragmatic, auditable solutions over theoretical perfection.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at Clarkson University
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Github Skills (13)
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c1710
mtls10
ssl10
tls1210
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tls1310
openssl10
encryption10
cryptography10
libtls10
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
aws/s2n-tls
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:37 commits, 34 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily focused on enhancing the security and compliance aspects of the s2n-tls library. Their contributions involved implementing support for FIPS-compliant cipher suite preferences and integrating EVP Digest Sign functions for the PRF, ensuring compliance with FIPS 140-2 standards. Furthermore, they addressed test framework issues by adding macros to properly display skipped unit tests. These changes demonstrate a strong emphasis on improving the cryptographic integrity of the TLS/SSL protocol implementation.
cryptographysslc99tlscrypto
bpdavidson/s2n
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
s2n : an implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
Contributions:185 pushes, 152 branches in 1 year 8 months
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