Lily Dayton
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLily Dayton is a software engineer with seven years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems for public cloud environments, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She brings deep backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to Netflix’s Zuul gateway where she improved proxy protocol handling, X-Forwarded-For parsing, and H2 channel address propagation. With graduate studies in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania and dual magna cum laude undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Linguistics (with a Logic and Computation minor), she blends rigorous formal thinking with practical systems engineering. Comfortable in production-critical infrastructure, she focuses on reliability, observability, and protocol correctness across complex networking stacks.
7 years of coding experience
Graduate Studies, Computer Science, Graduate Studies, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (8)
javas10
http10
netty10
proxy-protocol10
netflix-zuul10
java10
api-design9
testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/zuul
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Zuul is a gateway service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lily primarily focused on enhancing Zuul's proxy protocol handling capabilities. Their contributions involved modifying code to correctly interpret and utilize proxy protocol information, particularly the client's original port. The user also addressed a bug in the handling of the X-Forwarded-For header related to proxy protocol version 2. Furthermore, the user refactored how the original client destination address is set and added a test case for it, along with copying the destination address to the H2 channel.
api-gatewaygolangsecurityresiliencygateway-service
ldayton/dotfiles
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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