Byron Campen
Staff Engineer at Mozilla Corporation
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolByron Campen is a Staff Engineer with 20 years’ experience specializing in real-time communications, WebRTC, SIP, and performance-minded C++ on POSIX-like platforms. At Mozilla he drives networking and signaling for Firefox’s WebRTC stack, bringing deep protocol expertise honed earlier at Skype, Tekelec, and Estacado where he led SIP server and proxy design and optimization. A long-time open-source contributor, he’s fixed security-sensitive memory leaks and hardened resiprocate’s SIP/ICE/TURN implementations and improved Gecko’s data channel reliability, often adding tests to ensure interoperability. Trained in both computer science and statistics, Byron blends rigorous systems thinking with an eye for subtle edge cases in protocol behavior—an asset when defending against malformed or malicious traffic.
20 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics (Statistics focus), BS, Mathematics (Statistics focus) at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
c-language10
sctp10
testing10
it-security10
security10
sip10
sips10
network-protocol10
datachannel10
webrtc10
sipp10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
networking9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
resiprocate/resiprocate
Aug 2005 - May 2015
C++ implementation of SIP, ICE, TURN and related protocols.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:3233 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Byron primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the SIP, ICE, TURN, and related protocols implementation. The contributions involved adding options to the configure script, such as for installations of Berkeley DB, and fixing bugs in the code. Furthermore, they were involved with addressing memory leak vulnerabilities and enhancing code for handling and rejecting malicious or non-compliant traffic within the system.
cppfreeswitchsipiceprotocols
mozilla/gecko-dev
Oct 2013 - Jan 2023
Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1267 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Byron's commits primarily address issues related to the data channel, specifically addressing edge cases and improving the reliability of data channel operations. The contributions involved modifying and extending the DataChannel class in the netwerk/sctp/datachannel directory to handle edge cases around closing, opening, and resetting data channels. Furthermore, the user added and modified unit tests to verify the functionality and bug fixes. The user also integrated and vendorized WebRTC updates.
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