Geoff Cant
Owner at Erlenzed Limited
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarGeoff Cant is a software engineer and founder with 20 years’ experience designing and building resilient distributed systems, specializing in Erlang/OTP, Linux, and networked applications. He has led architecture and feature design for Heroku Private Spaces and contributed backend improvements to Heroku’s log router, focusing on robust syslog parsing and performance/stability enhancements. As owner of Erlenzed Limited he consults and develops Erlang solutions, drawing on a history of production work at companies from EA to Marqeta where he bridged security, deployment, and system design. Geoff’s background includes building high-throughput SMS and XMPP platforms and pragmatic tooling for large-scale deployments—skills that make him as comfortable in low-level parsing and buffer tuning as in high-level solution architecture.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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85answers
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Github Skills (18)
erlang10
messaging10
back-end-development10
message-system10
message-handler10
message-bus10
backend10
messagebox10
system-programming9
error-handling9
concurrency9
message-passing6
ejabberd6
tcp6
erlang-otp6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/logplex
Dec 2011 - Jul 2015
[DEPRECATED] Heroku log router
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:995 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Geoff primarily focused on developing and refactoring core backend logic within the Heroku log router project. Their contributions involved implementing and improving syslog message parsing, including a more robust parsing solution. They also worked on performance and stability improvements, such as optimizing the message processing and expanding buffer sizes.
herokurouter
archaelus/oserl
Aug 2007 - Apr 2009
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year 7 months
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