Summary
T Conklin is a seasoned production engineer with over 30 years designing and shipping real-time embedded and network-device firmware across startups and large enterprises, currently supporting production systems at Facebook from South San Francisco. He has led platform and build infrastructure efforts at Dell EMC, Ericsson/RedBack, and co-founded core infrastructure work at Identity Engines, blending deep C/C++ systems expertise with modern CI/CD and toolchain automation. His background spans kernel and driver work, firmware upgrade systems, protocol stacks and hardware crypto offload, plus long-running open source contributions dating back to the early 1990s. Known for pragmatic design-by-contract and domain-specific patterns, he excels at turning complex distributed and constrained-system requirements into maintainable deliverables. Beyond coding, he’s frequently been the front-line support and build ops owner, reducing time-to-delivery through developer-facing tooling improvements. Comfortable across commercial, open source, and bespoke components, he brings rare institutional memory on networking platforms and the build ecosystems that support them.
31 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer