Ed Walker
Principal Software Engineer at Vestmark
Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEd Walker is a Principal Software Engineer with over three decades of experience building distributed systems and architecting large-scale software for ISPs, financial services, and research organizations. Currently at Vestmark, he brings deep architectural judgment from a long tenure as Principal Software Architect at Cogolabs and earlier roles at Openwave and BBN, where he worked on widely deployed email and distributed system technologies. His MIT advanced degrees and a summa cum laude double major in CS and Math reflect a strong theoretical foundation that he consistently translates into reliable, production-ready products. Comfortable across stacks and long-lived systems, he excels at turning complex requirements into maintainable architectures and mentoring teams through technical trade-offs. Outside of work he has contributed time to community causes, serving on the board of a Boston-area nonprofit focused on protecting LGBTQ youth, signaling a commitment to impact beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Masters & Engineers Degrees Computer Science (EECS), Masters & Engineers Degrees Computer Science (EECS) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS (Double Major) Computer Science and Mathematics Summa Cum Laude, BS (Double Major) Computer Science and Mathematics Summa Cum Laude at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (10)
libsvm10
golang6
apache-spark6
pyspark6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-emr6
python6
amazon-s36
datasets6
programming-language5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ewalker544/libsvm-go
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
Full port of LIBSVM in the Go programming language
Contributions:27 commits in 1 month
golangprogramming-languagelibsvm
ewalker544/libsvm_threads
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 10 days
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