Bryan Malyn
Software Development Engineer II at Precision Music Inc.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Malyn is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable automation, observability, and privacy tooling across enterprises like Amazon, Samsung, and IBM. Currently on Amazon’s Privacy team and leading engineering at a music startup, he blends systems-level expertise—CMDB, monitoring automation, and configuration management—with hands-on software development. His open-source contributions to projects like i3status-rust and dunst demonstrate a focus on robust backend fixes, DBus reliability, and cross-platform device support. Known for converting manual processes into streamlined, test-covered systems, he’s been recognized at IBM for creative problem-solving. Based in Chicago, he brings a rare mix of infrastructure automation, security-conscious design, and practical product ownership to complex operational problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Virginia TechStudy Abroad, Computer Science, Junior, Study Abroad, Computer Science, Junior at Luleå University of Technology
English, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (16)
c1710
system10
gdb10
rust10
system-programming10
c1110
sys10
dbus10
testing10
libnotify9
async9
asynchronous9
io8
command-line-tool7
wayland4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
greshake/i3status-rust
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:1 release, 227 reviews, 22 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the i3status-rust project. Their contributions include fixing build-time version information collection, addressing spacing issues in the battery block, removing redundant calls, and adding support for new battery drivers like `apcupsd` and `upower`, which included creating new files, modifying existing ones, and implementing corresponding logic. Additionally, the user also corrected an issue related to named PulseAudio sound devices failing to show their current volume.
rustfeature-richpure-rusti3statusreplacement
dunst-project/dunst
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily focused on enhancing the `dunst` notification daemon's functionality and reliability. Their contributions included implementing DBus signal handling for properties changes, adding unit tests for DBus interactions, and refactoring code related to DBus and input tests to ensure proper cleanup. They also fixed formatting issues throughout the codebase, ensuring code consistency. The user's work improved the daemon's interaction with DBus, adding better stability through robust testing.
daemonnotificationscustomizablenotification-centernotification
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