Wayne Mesard
Brotbäcker at Self-employed
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolWayne Mesard is a systems-focused software engineer with over 25 years of experience in operating systems, computer architecture, and performance, most recently serving as a Principal Engineer at AWS before transitioning to self-employment. He blends deep academic grounding—a Stanford M.S. in Operating Systems and a CMU B.S. in Cognitive Psychology—with hands-on roles at Sun, SGI, Ab Initio, and Amazon, driving low-level system design and performance optimizations. Known for tackling hard systems problems, Wayne has moved between product-focused teams (Alexa Devices) and large-scale cloud infrastructure, providing a rare combination of OS-level expertise and production experience. Based in Boston, he brings a thoughtful, cross-disciplinary perspective shaped by decades of building foundational software, and now applies that craft to independent projects as a Brotbäcker.
4 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Cog.Psy. (Artificial Intelligence), B.S., Cog.Psy. (Artificial Intelligence) at Carnegie Mellon UniversityM.S., Computer Science (Operating Systems), M.S., Computer Science (Operating Systems) at Stanford University
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Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
docker10
amazon-ebs10
go10
aws10
csi-driver10
csi10
oci-image9
crossword9
constructors9
containerd9
scheduling8
mesos8
kubernetes-monitoring8
webapp7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wmesard/soci
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 days
wmesard/artifacts-spec
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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