Serris Santos
Software Engineer at Lewser Corporation
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSerris Santos is a software engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems and developer tooling, currently contributing at Apple in Sunnyvale. He brings a strong mix of production engineering and DevOps skills, demonstrated by contributions to the high-profile Apache Traffic Server project where he improved header-rewrite logic, stale-content handling, and memory robustness. Prior roles span cloud-focused backend work with AWS Lambdas, mixed-reality education prototypes, and hands-on leadership running a family apparel business, showing both technical depth and operational entrepreneurship. A Carnegie Mellon ECE graduate, Serris also has a background in teaching and research-driven mobile applications, reflecting an ability to communicate complex ideas and iterate on user-centered systems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who can move between low-level performance fixes and higher-level workflow orchestration.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Troy High SchoolBachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, Japanese, English
Github Skills (9)
caching10
http10
proxy10
c-language10
reverse-proxy10
cprogramming-language10
apache9
devops8
cdn7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:87 reviews, 31 commits, 57 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Serris contributed to the Apache Traffic Server project by implementing a new condition for the header rewrite plugin, adding the ability to check cache lookup results. They also addressed various issues related to serving stale content in different scenarios, including DNS failures and parent proxy unavailability. Furthermore, the user was involved in adding functionality for HEAD requests within the slice plugin and addressing memory issues.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
serrislew/trafficserver
Jul 2021 - Apr 2025
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Contributions:131 pushes, 41 branches in 3 years 9 months
proxy-serverproxyreverse-proxyniohttpd
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