Bryan Paxton
Consulting Architect at HCA Healthcare
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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RockstarBryan Paxton is a Consulting Architect based in Memphis with eight years of professional software engineering and architecture experience and a broader decade-plus technical background across engineering and security roles. He currently shapes healthcare technology at HCA while serving on the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation board, contributing to marketing, packaging, and education efforts that support functional programming adoption. Hands-on contributor to core open-source projects like Elixir and Erlang/OTP, he has improved parser/tokenizer behavior, extended crypto library support for AEAD, and added platform-specific certificate handling—work that impacts the reliability and security of distributed systems. Bryan blends low-level systems work (C and crypto integration) with high-level architecture and team leadership, making him comfortable across the stack. He favors pragmatic, test-driven improvements that raise coverage and operational robustness, and brings an uncommon mix of open-source stewardship and enterprise delivery to architect resilient, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (21)
erlang10
mixing10
elixir10
mixnet10
testing10
mixture10
mixins10
cryptography10
functional-programming10
cprogramming-language10
parserator9
coverage9
parser9
tokenizer8
rebar8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
erlang/otp
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Erlang/OTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 16 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the `crypto` library within the Erlang/OTP repository. Their work included adding an `aead` attribute to the `cipher_info` function, modifying C source code to include `atom_aead`, and updating test files to reflect changes. Additionally, the user refactored the `aead` attribute naming to `prop_aead`, demonstrating a focus on refining and extending the cryptographic functionality of the project. Furthermore, they contributed to loading certificates from the system keychain on Darwin platforms and added a warning message if the System.keychain loading failed.
gleamerlangbeamerlang-otpelixir
elixir-lang/elixir
Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bryan contributed to the Elixir project by fixing typespecs in the `DynamicSupervisor` module and improving test coverage for the `Version.Parser`. They added support for a new rebar3 output environment option and implemented changes to exit with a specific status code when coverage falls below a defined threshold. Additionally, the user added support for sigils containing integers, modifying the Elixir tokenizer and parser to accommodate these changes.
functional-languagescalablefunctional-programmingelixircompiler
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