Kenneth Payson
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Milpitas, California, United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Payson is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, production-critical systems at top tech companies including Google and Meta. He has deep backend expertise in distributed systems and security, demonstrated by work on AWS EC2 dataplane features and contributions to gRPC and Conscrypt—impacting cross-platform RPC and Java TLS implementations. Comfortable shipping at massive scale, he’s fixed platform-level build and buffer-handling bugs, added Raspberry Pi builds, and improved compatibility down to Java 7. Based in Milpitas with a CS degree from Carnegie Mellon, he combines rigorous engineering discipline with hands-on open-source contributions that improve reliability across widely used infrastructure projects.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (19)
c-language10
ssl10
tls1210
multiplatform10
build-system10
cross-platform10
tls1310
java10
security10
javas10
openjdk10
cprogramming-language10
platform-independent10
debug9
linux9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc
Apr 2016 - Jul 2018
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 590 commits, 596 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth contributed to the core gRPC C++ project by addressing build-related issues, specifically those impacting Windows, and updating dependencies. They also fixed compilation issues related to the C++ standard and added a build for the Raspberry Pi. In addition, the user has made code format and performance improvements, and added new features.
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
google/conscrypt
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Conscrypt is a Java Security Provider that implements parts of the Java Cryptography Extension and Java Secure Socket Extension.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the Conscript project, which is a Java Security Provider. Their contributions involved fixing critical bugs related to buffer handling within the `OpenSSLEngineSocketImpl` class, preventing potential write errors and underflow issues. Additionally, the user made adjustments to support Java 7 compatibility and added extended session features, improving compatibility and feature availability. These changes directly impacted the SSL/TLS implementation and server name handling.
securecryptographysocketprovidersecurity
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