Glyph L
PSF Fellow at Python Software Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGlyph L is a veteran software engineer and PSF Fellow based in San Francisco with nearly two decades leading event-driven networking and scalable systems work. As founder and long-time project leader of Twisted, he has guided a project with millions of downloads that underpins countless Python networking stacks. His career spans senior engineering roles at Apple and Rackspace and hands-on systems leadership at startups like Divmod and Pilot.com, blending architecture, CI/process engineering, and production scalability. Glyph specializes in asynchronous networking and building resilient, maintainable infrastructure, often contributing cross-company architectural guidance and open source libraries. Beyond code, his interests weave technical craft with philosophical perspectives—hinted by his GitHub bio—and he’s known for seeding long-lived, community-driven projects rather than chasing short-term wins.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Pennington Grimes elementaryNone, Computer Science, Chinese Philosophy, None, Computer Science, Chinese Philosophy at Hampshire CollegeClarkstown South High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (187)
cargo10
python10
twisted10
face10
planet10
node-server10
asynchronous10
npm10
in-progress9
markdown9
tornado9
rust9
socket9
realtime9
multithreading9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mycognosist/solar
Aug 2020 - Feb 2023
A minimal Secure Scuttlebutt replication node.
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 146 commits in 2 years 6 months
securescuttlebuttreplicationsecure-scuttlebutt
peachcloud/peach-devdocs
Nov 2019 - Jun 2022
Developer documentation for PeachCloud in the form of a Markdown book.
Contributions:3 reviews, 54 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 7 months
markdowndeveloper-documentation
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