Leif Hedstrom
CDN And ATS Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolLeif Hedstrom is a seasoned CDN and ATS engineer with 16+ years designing high-scale Internet systems and a long history of working on HTTP intermediaries and caching proxies. Currently at Apple and a VP-level contributor to the Apache Traffic Server project, he focuses on robust, scalable solutions—improving logging, configuration and cache behavior in a widely used open-source proxy. His background spans principal architect roles at Akamai and Cisco and production anti-spam and high-throughput delivery systems at Yahoo, reflecting deep expertise in Unix/FreeBSD, network programming, and system architecture. Comfortable in C/C++, Python and multiple scripting languages, he combines low-level systems craftsmanship with pragmatic operational experience. Based in Denver, he brings an unusual mix of academic-era hardware lab stewardship and decades of Internet-scale engineering to bear on hard reliability and performance problems.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Sandviken highschoolLinköping University
English, Swedish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
configuration-management10
http10
c-language10
logging10
cprogramming-language10
apache-trafficserver6
firefox6
nginx6
proxy6
reverse-proxy6
server6
network-programming6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Nov 2009 - Jan 2023
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:426 reviews, 3840 commits, 1759 PRs in 13 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Leif appears to be a back-end developer actively working on the Apache Traffic Server project, focused on improving the logging and configuration systems. They are responsible for adding new functionality to capture and log the cache lookup URL by introducing a new log tag (%<cluc>). They also worked on removing unused configurations as well as fixing code to avoid compilation warnings.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
netlify/trafficserver
Jan 2019 - Feb 2023
Apache Traffic Server
Contributions:9 commits in 4 years 1 month
connectorapachehttpdtrafficjava
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