Preston Elder
Principal Software Engineer at Splunk
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolPreston Elder is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building high-performance, secure systems in C++, Java and a wide range of scripting languages. He has driven end-to-end delivery at scale for organizations from startups to hyperscalers—contributing to AWS Certificate Manager and CloudHSM, leading simulation and infrastructure teams at Improbable, and solving large-scale mapping and rendering problems at Mapbox. His background includes low-latency financial systems, cryptography and security tooling, and resilient production testing frameworks that replay real traffic for regression validation. Comfortable leading teams through design, deployment and maintenance in Linux/UNIX environments, he combines deep systems expertise with practical operational know-how. A dual US–Australian citizen based in Virginia, he’s open to roles in the Washington DC area or remote positions and brings an uncommon mix of security, simulation, and high-throughput systems experience.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Microcomputing, Microcomputing at Gymea College of TAFE
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Github Skills (200)
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automation10
node-red10
home-assistant10
google-home10
quest10
mqtt10
home-automation10
garden10
iot10
apt10
zigbee10
octoprint10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
corporategoth/sedutil
Jul 2016 - Feb 2020
DTA sedutil Self encrypting drive software
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 7 months
cryptographyencryptingcloud-infrastructureorigamifat
corporategoth/rotationmaster
Mar 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 96 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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