Colton Mccurdy
Staff Software Engineer at Fastly
Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolColton Mccurdy is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and operational tooling, currently driving reliability and developer productivity at Fastly. He combines a practical focus on large-scale data and deployment workflows with research-informed interests in software testing, static analysis, and cryptography—stemming from undergraduate work on reducing the cost of mutation testing. At StockX he led efforts to scale international Google Shopping pipelines and architect real-time data transformations that materially impacted acquisition channels. He contributes to open-source security tooling like ghostunnel, where he implemented and tested status and configuration checks, reflecting a blend of backend and DevOps expertise. Colton is motivated by making engineers more effective through tooling and continues to publish and prototype research-driven improvements to software quality. Based in Meadville, PA, he brings a steady, sustainability-minded approach to engineering: there is no winning, only sustaining.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Meadville Area Senior HighBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Senior at Allegheny College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
security10
http10
go10
testing10
proxy9
tls128
ssl8
mtls8
libtls8
tls138
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ghostunnel/ghostunnel
May 2022 - May 2022
A simple SSL/TLS proxy with mutual authentication for securing non-TLS services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 1 PR in 11 days
Contributions summary:Colton primarily contributed to the development and testing of an HTTP status endpoint within the ghostunnel project. They fixed failing tests and validated configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented a status check that interacts with a target URL. This included adding test boilerplate and addressing comments on flag naming and moving flags to server configurations, demonstrating work across back-end functionality and project configuration.
pkcs11keychainsslhsmproxy
mccurdyc/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Aug 2022
Keep a backup of my dotfiles
Contributions:638 commits, 3 PRs, 307 pushes in 5 years 2 months
keepkarabinerlinuxdotfilesbackup
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