Naftuli Kay
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNaftuli Kay is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of cross-disciplinary experience building privacy-preserving analytics, large-scale cloud infrastructure, and high-concurrency systems across Rust, Go, Python, Java/Scala and more. He designs and implements end-to-end solutions—from low-level SELinux policy and systems programming to Terraform-driven multi-account cloud migrations and observable, chaos-tested production pipelines. At Mozilla he single-handedly built a local DAP/Janus testbed in async Rust with OpenTelemetry for privacy-first experimentation, and previously engineered tools to launch tens of thousands of VMs and to manage massive Terraform workspaces. Equally comfortable mentoring teams and shipping production code, Naftuli blends deep security and systems instincts with pragmatic automation and developer ergonomics. Based in Los Angeles, he’s as likely to be tuning kernel and Envoy performance as he is to authoring documentation and runbooks, and he brings an unusual appetite for solving problems across entire engineering organizations.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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117answers
549questions
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Github Skills (200)
benchmark10
statusline10
automation10
handbrake10
command-line-parser10
vagrant10
github-projects10
intellij10
terraform-provider10
argument-parsing10
toolchain10
command-line10
python10
windows10
nagios10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
naftulikay/ansible-role-python-dev
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
An Ansible role for a Python development setup.
Contributions:12 releases, 28 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 1 month
ansible-rolepython-development
naftulikay/ansible-role-vim-personal
Mar 2018 - May 2020
Installs and configures my own personal Vim setup.
Contributions:11 releases, 51 PRs, 83 pushes in 2 years 2 months
vim
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