Melinda Shore
Retired
Alaska, United States
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Top SchoolMelinda Shore is a retired principal security and middleware architect with 13 years of recent professional experience and decades of deep systems expertise spanning BSD and Mach internals, network stacks, and core kernel code. She led security architecture at Fastly and founded No Mountain Software, delivering production-grade implementations in DNS, PKI/DANE, TLS extensions, and VNF redundancy while contributing to the getdns asynchronous DNS API. A long-standing standards leader, she chaired multiple IETF/ETSI working groups, served on the Internet Architecture Board, and holds patents reflecting a strong record of innovation. Comfortable translating RFCs and drafts straight into working prototypes, she blends low-level C systems work with higher-level Python and Go tooling. Based in Alaska, she pairs rigorous engineering with research acumen and an uncommon background in music and art history that informs her methodical, creative approach to protocol and security design.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. (incomplete), Information Retrieval, Ph.D. (incomplete), Information Retrieval at University of ChicagoBFA, Music (major), art history (minor), BFA, Music (major), art history (minor) at Ithaca College
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Github Skills (7)
c1710
api10
c1110
apidoc10
dns9
automake9
error-handling8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
getdnsapi/getdns
Jun 2013 - Jun 2017
A modern asynchronous DNS API https://getdnsapi.net/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 commits, 30 PRs, 26 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Melinda primarily focused on enhancing the API, fixing bugs, and improving code stability. Their contributions included addressing null pointer exceptions and refining existing code, and merging in updates. Furthermore, the user modified the build process to use automake. These changes indicate a focus on maintenance and improvement of the API's core functionality.
apiasynchronousdnsdns-apigetdnsapi
getdnsapi/getdns-python-bindings
Feb 2014 - Nov 2017
Python bindings for getdns
Contributions:8 releases, 247 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 10 months
getdnspython-bindingspython
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