Kurt Griffiths
Engineering Manager at Falcon Framework
City of London, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKurt Griffiths is an engineering manager and seasoned technical leader with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, secure, and high-performance services across startups, enterprise, and open source. He created and continues to maintain the Falcon web framework for Python—used at companies like LinkedIn and PayPal—which reflects his focus on reliability and performance at scale. Kurt has led architecture and platform efforts at Rackspace and NexHealth, co-founded startups, and hands-on engineered systems ranging from DoD ground services prototypes to web performance tooling. He’s as comfortable mentoring senior engineers and advising executives as he is writing core backend features, and often blends product, support, and engineering perspectives to drive outcomes. A lifelong programmer who started by buying a BASIC book at 12, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a knack for pragmatic, well-documented technical design.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Brigham Young University
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
api-rest10
http10
rest-api10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
exception-handling9
unit-testing8
testing8
unit-test8
64-bit6
win646
windows6
hex6
socket6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
falconry/falcon
Dec 2012 - Sep 2022
The no-magic web API and microservices framework for Python developers, with an emphasis on reliability and performance at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 205 reviews, 657 commits in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kurt primarily contributed to the development of the Falcon web framework by implementing method-based routing, adding HTTP status codes, and improving code readability via refactoring. They also addressed core functionality by adding a utility for handling date and time, introducing support for various header features, and improving the exception handling. Furthermore, the user added several media type constants and integrated new functionality and features like setting the "Vary" header in various scenarios.
pythonmagicdata-planemicroservicecorrectness
falconry/updraft
Jul 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
apipythonoptimizedserverwerkzeug
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