Ted Burghart
Retiree at Retired
United States
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Top SchoolTed Burghart is a retired software technologist with over four decades of experience designing and delivering secure, reliable distributed systems across telecom, storage, security, and web domains. He has led deep technical work from low-level OS and VM optimizations to global, masterless datastores—driving performance and stability improvements at Basho (contributing to Riak and Erlang/OTP) and architecting large-scale repositories at Nokia. A multiple-patent holder and industry standards contributor, Ted blends practical engineering with thought leadership in distributed security, middleware, and cross-platform integration. He has repeatedly translated research-grade ideas into production-grade systems, including policy-driven security unifiers and scalable federation solutions. Active in open source, his contributions to Riak, lager, and Erlang tooling show a focus on SSL, performance, and robust logging under real-world load. Based in the United States, he’s known as a “distributed systems nerd” who quietly shapes infrastructure that makes large systems dependable.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Business Computer Programming, Business Computer Programming at Computer Processing Institute
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Github Skills (22)
ssl10
erlang10
webmachine10
back-end-development10
testing10
riak10
distributed-systems10
otp10
logging10
backend10
code-optimization9
access-control9
error-handling9
file-handling8
file-processing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
basho/riak_core
Feb 2015 - Aug 2016
Distributed systems infrastructure used by Riak.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ted primarily contributed to the core logic of the Riak Core distributed systems infrastructure, focusing on Erlang code. Their work included optimizing SSL handling, specifically addressing potential blocking issues and improving the handling of SSL socket statistics. They also made changes to internal utility functions related to job class acceptance and rejection, and refactored parts of the TCP monitoring system. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on performance, security, and stability within the system.
erlanginfrastructureinfrastructure-systemskubernetesdistributed-systems
erlang-lager/lager
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
A logging framework for Erlang/OTP
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ted primarily focused on improving the logging framework's functionality and stability. Their commits included changes to the error handling and crash reporting mechanisms, addressing unicode and latin-1 encoding issues in the file backend. Furthermore, they contributed to refactoring and enhancing the test suite, ensuring consistent and reliable behavior, and fixing several flappy tests.
gleamerlangloggererlang-otplogging
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