Elisha Ziskind
Software Engineer at Google
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElisha Ziskind is a seasoned software engineer with eight years of recent experience and a long career building reliable infrastructure and security-focused tooling across industry leaders like Google, VMware, Delphix, and Bell Labs. He has deep expertise in distributed systems, high-availability platforms, and offline analysis tools—having led development of firewall analysis products that were later commercialized and acquired. At Google he continues to apply that systems mindset, and his open-source contributions to the high-profile Envoy proxy project include resource monitoring and overload protection features that improve resilience under load. Colleagues know him for tackling hard operational problems (heap shrinking, keepalive control for overload scenarios) rather than just feature work, reflecting a pragmatic attention to system behavior in production. A Princeton-educated engineer, he blends research-era innovation with production-hardened delivery across both proprietary and open-source stacks.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
resource-management10
back-end-development10
envoyproxy10
http9
dockers7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
docker7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
envoyproxy/envoy
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 46 commits, 49 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Elisha Ziskind contributed to the Envoy proxy project by implementing and enhancing core features related to resource management and overload protection. This included the development of a resource monitor framework, an overload manager, and integration with HTTP connection manager. Furthermore, the user added the functionality to try to shrink the heap and added support to disable keepalive in HTTP/1.x for overload control.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
eziskind/envoy
Jun 2018 - Sep 2024
C++ front/service proxy
Contributions:105 pushes, 93 branches in 6 years 4 months
cppservice-proxyproxy
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