Eliza Weisman
Software Engineer at Oxide Computer Company
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEliza Weisman is a systems-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience building robust, high-performance infrastructure, currently at Oxide Computer Company in San Francisco. She specializes in low-level and distributed systems in Rust and has made notable contributions to cornerstone projects like Tokio, Hyper, and Linkerd, improving async runtimes, HTTP/2, and proxy telemetry. Her work spans backend engineering and DevOps—refactoring consensus services, enhancing observability with Tokio Console, and hardening mempool and proxy components for real-world reliability. At Buoyant she helped productionize Linkerd’s network stack, combining protocol expertise with operator-focused tooling and metrics. Known on GitHub as a “systems witch,” she brings a pragmatic attention to edge cases (panic resilience, flow-control fixes, and precise deadline/TTL handling) that keeps critical infrastructure running smoothly. She prefers long-term, mission-aligned roles and is deeply invested in the open-source ecosystem that underpins modern cloud-native systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Allegheny College
English, java, python, c, scala, rust
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
multithreading10
dns-resolver10
testing10
http10
hyper10
mtls10
dns10
nameserver10
concurrency10
monitoring10
service-mesh10
middleware10
mutex10
async10
implement10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
tokio-rs/console
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
a debugger for async rust!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 449 reviews, 244 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Eliza primarily contributed to the console application, focusing on building a debugger for asynchronous Rust applications. The commits involved implementing features to collect and display task and resource data, including metrics like self-wake counts, percentages, and the time spent busy and idle. The code changes also included refactoring parts of the application to improve readability and address potential memory leaks. The user also added support for the display of warnings, color-coding of durations, and the ability to generate configuration files.
crateconsolerusttokio-consoledebugger
tower-rs/tower
Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
async fn(Request) -> Result<Response, Error>
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 196 reviews, 93 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Eliza Weisman made significant contributions to the `tower-rs/tower` repository, focusing on improving the robustness and correctness of the load-balancing and middleware components. Her work included fixing integer overflows, correcting off-by-one errors, and implementing `std::error::Error` for error types across several middleware crates. She also updated dependencies, addressed build issues, and refactored code for better naming conventions and handling of duplicate inserts.
error-responserustrequestasyncmiddleware
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