Oliver Dain
Production Engineer at Facebook
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Dain is a Production Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, reliable systems and infrastructure across networking and software domains. He blends deep systems-level expertise—from writing kernel drivers in C++ to crafting lightweight Lua mods—with hands-on production operations at Facebook and earlier leadership roles in security and networking. Comfortable across Linux distros (a noted Gentoo advocate) and the Microsoft ecosystem, he designs secure architectures, automates configuration, and champions BDD/TDD to keep quality high. His background spans routing/switching protocols and custom firewall platforms through to enterprise-grade C++ services, giving him rare cross-discipline fluency. Colleagues rely on him to balance long-term maintainability with pragmatic delivery, and he routinely moves between low-level engineering and strategic security stewardship. Outside the obvious, he frequently implements bespoke integrations (e.g., custom OpenVPN and networking plugins) that bridge operations and developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Administration & Programming, Computer Administration & Programming at Isle of Wight College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (180)
json-parser10
memory-efficient10
perl10
asio10
mmap10
x50910
serializer10
cryptanalysis10
java10
serialization10
binary-data10
flatbuffers10
javascript9
crypto9
sdk9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Olipro/LuaHook-NG
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
Generic Lua Hooking functionality library.
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 2 months
luahookinggeneric
HoxHud/HoxHud-bin
Jul 2014 - Nov 2019
HoxHud Public Distribution Files
Contributions:1 release, 81 commits, 12 PRs in 5 years 4 months
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