Riley Spahn
Software Engineer at Cloudflare
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiley Spahn is a software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in high-performance networking, low-level systems programming, and data privacy. He has worked on kernel-bypass networking and RDMA at Google, owning transport encryption and key management, and now applies that expertise at Cloudflare. His academic work at Columbia produced multiple privacy-preserving systems for machine learning and data management (Sage, Pyramid, Pebbles), reflecting deep research-to-production fluency. Riley combines hardware-software boundary engineering with practical security implementations, and his background spans both fast-paced industry roles and rigorous doctoral research. An early hands-on start as a bike mechanic hints at a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to complex engineering problems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at Auburn University
Github Skills (5)
vulnerability2
nessus2
visualization1
gpu1
monte-carlo1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rlyspn/DotFiles
Jan 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 7 months
rlyspn/mod_bot_relay
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:26 commits in 1 month
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