Conrad Meyer
Software Engineer at Facebook
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolConrad Meyer is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building high-performance systems software, currently working on storage and tracing infrastructure at Facebook from Seattle. He brings deep kernel and systems expertise from a long history as a FreeBSD committer and principal engineer at Isilon, where he solved storage bottlenecks, driver integrations, and SSD/SSD-tiering challenges for enterprise-scale file systems. His open-source contributions to projects like facebook/folly and HHVM show a pragmatic focus on performance engineering—most notably accelerating CRC32C with SSE4.2/AVX512 and hardening libraries to avoid use-after-free and stack bloat. Conrad blends low-level C and systems work with Rust advocacy, fuzzing, and proactive security auditing, and he led a Rust port of a serialization system used in production. Colleagues rely on him for making unsafe interfaces safer and for shipping measurable benchmark gains rather than speculative optimizations.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Washington
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Github Skills (47)
performance-monitor10
c-language10
benchmark10
performance-analytics10
multiplatform10
freebsd10
avx10
benchmarking10
bash10
cross-platform10
c1110
bloom-filter10
performance-measurement10
c1710
performance-analysis10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
taviso/ctypes.sh
Jul 2015 - May 2016
A foreign function interface for bash.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 9 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
Contributions summary:Conrad primarily focused on porting the `ctypes.sh` project, a foreign function interface for bash, to FreeBSD. This involved addressing platform-specific differences, including Glibcisms and Linuxisms, and adapting code to ensure compatibility. They also fixed various Clang warnings and implemented portable replacements for non-standard functions. Additionally, the user added features like raw-ish hex float mode and corrected memory leaks, demonstrating a focus on code quality and cross-platform compatibility.
bash
armon/bloomd
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
C network daemon for bloom filters
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Conrad primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements for the `bloomd` project, a C network daemon for bloom filters. Their work included fixing errors in pread(2) handling, addressing compiler warnings, and modifying the hashmap implementation to generate random seeds. The user also refactored and optimized parts of the codebase. These changes show a focus on improving code reliability and the security of the bloom filter's implementation.
bloom-filter
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