Jon Anderson
Staff Software Engineer at Fastly
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Anderson is a Staff Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA with 13 years of experience building robust distributed systems across telecom, robotics, and cloud platforms. He brings deep systems-level expertise in C, Rust, Python, Go, and Erlang, with experience spanning embedded devices to high-throughput cloud services and customer data pipelines. Jon has a strong track record improving stability and security in production systems—evidenced by contributions to the well-known Riak KV project—and has architected telemetry/logging services at Fastly. A practiced mentor and communicator, he combines hands-on coding with system architecture and operational rigor, often surfacing subtle correctness and permission-check issues before they reach production.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (5)
riak10
erlang10
webmachine10
security9
database-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
basho/riak_kv
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Riak Key/Value Store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jon focused on improving the security and stability of the Riak Key/Value store. Their contributions include refactoring code related to resource validation and permission checks within the webmachine context. The user also added and modified code to include various statistics related to the Yokozuna search feature, as well as fixing a dialyzer issue.
javakey-valueriakkey-value-store
TritonDataCenter/rust-cueball-dns-resolver
May 2019 - Jan 2020
FSM-based DNS resolver for rust-cueball
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
dnsresolverrustfsmdns-resolver
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