Cameron Bytheway
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolCameron Bytheway is a Principal Engineer based in the Salt Lake City area with 14 years of experience building secure, high-performance network and web systems. At AWS he has driven protocol and crypto work across CloudFront and core transport libraries, contributing to widely used open-source projects such as aws/s2n-quic and aws/s2n-tls where he implemented core codec functionality, CI/audit workflows, and tighter error handling. His background spans entrepreneurial CTO roles and product engineering, giving him a rare blend of hands-on systems programming, security engineering, and leadership. He has shipped production-grade distributed systems and real-time media tooling as a founder while earlier roles included designing campus-scale learning platforms and mobile medical imaging apps. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that balances correctness, security, and operability at scale. He pairs deep protocol-level expertise with an instinct for improving developer tooling and testability across the stack.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
ssl10
tls1210
it-security10
c1110
tls1310
network-programming10
security10
c1710
mtls10
quic10
cryptography10
libtls10
error-handling10
rust10
encryption10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
aws/s2n-quic
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
An implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1416 reviews, 480 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to the implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol in the `aws/s2n-quic` repository. Their work involved implementing core codec functionality, adding GitHub Actions workflows for CI, adding audit workflows, and integrating Miri testing. Their commits also show code modifications for the QUIC transport parameters, including changes related to connection errors and other related configurations.
cryptographyquichttp3rustprotocol
aws/s2n-tls
May 2020 - Jan 2023
An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:5 releases, 1308 reviews, 65 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to the implementation of core functionality within the s2n-tls library, including the addition of a `s2n_result` implementation for better error handling, indicating a focus on improving the library's robustness. Their contributions extended to modifying test code, and adding a Dockerfile, demonstrating involvement in build processes. They also made changes related to security policies and the handling of QUIC transport parameters, revealing a focus on security and protocol implementation within the TLS/SSL domain.
cryptographysslc99tlscrypto
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