Damian Meden
Principal Software Dev Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Murcia, Region of Murcia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolDamian Meden is a Principal Software Development Engineer with over a decade of deep C++ expertise across databases, telecommunications, gaming and digital advertising, currently focused on edge and caching systems at Yahoo working on Apache Traffic Server. He has progressed from low-level systems and telephony work to game development and large-scale HTTP proxy engineering, combining modern C++ (C++11–17), Boost, and portable Unix/Linux/OSX skills. As an Apache Traffic Server committer and contributor, he has improved core functionality and security—adding FQDN-based tunnel routing and QUIC IP-layer DF support—demonstrating both protocol-level insight and pragmatic engineering. Colleagues rely on him as an SME and lead who translates complex network and performance requirements into robust, maintainable code. Based in Murcia, Spain, he blends hands-on implementation with architecture and security-focused contributions that quietly harden high-throughput edge infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems Engineering Systems, Information Systems Engineering Systems at Universidad Abierta Interamericana
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
http10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
quic10
security10
networking9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:294 reviews, 65 commits, 444 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily focused on enhancing security and core functionality within the Apache Traffic Server project. Their contributions included adding support to match and replace captured groups from the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) into the tunnel route for secure tunnel destinations. They also implemented and modified functionalities, like the new API for retrieving the record data type. Furthermore, the user added support for the "Don't Fragment" (DF) bit at the IP layer for QUIC.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
brbzull0/trafficserver
Jan 2020 - Apr 2025
Apache Traffic Server
Contributions:11 reviews, 8 PRs, 477 pushes in 5 years 2 months
javahttpdapachetraffic
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