Stephen Ludin
Distinguished Engineer at Google
Mill Valley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Ludin is a Distinguished Engineer with 13+ years of professional experience and a long trajectory in low-level server-side systems, currently shaping Cloud Networking at Google after two decades of senior architecture and engineering leadership at Akamai. He specializes in performance optimization, memory-safe coding practices, and protocol-level innovation, with a portfolio that includes driving adoption of HTTP/2, edge computing advances, and over 25 patents. A self-taught engineer tempered by collegiate study, he pairs deep C/C++ and Rust expertise with operational rigor across FreeBSD and Linux stacks. Stephen is also a developer mentor and technical advisor, blending product-minded architecture with hands-on hacking in languages from Perl to JavaScript. Based in Mill Valley, he has a track record of delivering revenue-impacting solutions, modernizing post-acquisition systems, and influencing industry standards while quietly contributing to security and certificate authority infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (51)
rcon-client10
rcon10
mojang10
minecraft9
remote-administration-tool9
remote-access8
remote-control8
cert7
ssl7
authority7
cryptography7
rust6
administration6
certificate-authority6
pki6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sludin/Protocol-ACME
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 71 commits, 18 PRs in 10 months
provisioningletsencryptperl-librarysecuritywriting-scripts
sludin/trooptrack
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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