Garand Tyson
Senior Core Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGarand Tyson is a Senior Core Engineer based in San Francisco with seven years of systems-first experience building high-performance distributed and operating systems, now focused on protocol and C++ development for a Layer 1 blockchain at the Stellar Development Foundation. He designs ledger state and validator incentives, implements a C++17 validator with a custom blockchain database and high-performance P2P networking, and routinely tackles low-level performance and kernel-adjacent problems. A Stanford MS/BS in Computer Science (systems/software theory), he has prior experience hardening firmware and secure boot at Microsoft and optimizing latency-sensitive Linux trading systems at D. E. Shaw. His background spans silicon emulation, FPGA tooling, and even quantum-optics research, reflecting an unusual blend of hardware, firmware, and distributed-protocol expertise. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, production-grade designs that bridge formal software theory and gritty systems engineering.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science (Software Theory Concentration), Master of Science - MS Computer Science (Software Theory Concentration) at Stanford University School of EngineeringBachelor of Science with Honors - BSH Computer Science (Systems Concentration), Bachelor of Science with Honors - BSH Computer Science (Systems Concentration) at Stanford University
Chinese
Github Skills (56)
consensus10
peer-to-peer10
reference-implementation10
distributed-systems10
horizon10
cryptocurrency10
agent10
ethereum10
blockchain10
stellar10
p2p10
docker-image9
quickbooks9
docker-compose9
angularjs9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SirTyson/stellar-core
Jan 2022 - Apr 2025
stellar-core is the reference implementation for the peer to peer agent that manages the Stellar network
Contributions:733 pushes, 179 branches in 3 years 2 months
agentp2pblockchainstellar-networkstellar
SirTyson/stellar-xdr
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:60 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year 11 months
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