Lee Aylward
Work Experience
2016-Present—Principal Software Engineer—Fastly
Responsibilities
- Maintain backend to customer-facing configuration management system.
- Maintain service for safely compiling untrusted customer code.
- Optimize distribution of customer data and serverless applications to thousands of servers around the globe.
Projects
- Helped launch the Fastly Compute@Edge serverless compute platform.
- Scaled the TLS distribution system from supporting thousands of certificates to supporting tens of millions.
- Designed and implemented low latency, globally available key/value store.
- Identified and optimized key performance bottlenecks in production applications.
2011-2016—Lead Developer—Ars Technica (Condé Nast)
Responsibilities
- Maintained CMS and other infrastructure.
- Supported authors and readers in day-to-day use of the site.
- Collaborated with ad-operations to launch high profile ad campaigns.
- Worked closely with creative director to plan and build new features for the site.
- Occasionally wrote articles related to my interests.
Projects
2009-2011—Perl Developer—Server Central (now Deft)
- Maintained a legacy Perl codebase used to manage the company's core business.
- Worked with SNMP to monitor customer bandwidth and power usage.
- Worked with RRD to graph this data internally and on a public facing
customer portal.
- Wrote software to process billing data, generate invoices, and accept customer payments.
Open Source work
An oEmbed gateway, enabling users to embed content from around the web in their applications through a single API.
Web-based IRC clients that uses WebSockets and SSE for instantaneous updates.
An HTTP proxy application for use with the Plack web stack. It is fairly popular in the Perl community, and has a large list of contributors.
Skills
Programming languages
- Perl
- Go
- PHP
- Ruby
- Javascript
- Objective-C
- bash
Web technologies
- HTTP
- REST
- WebSockets
- SSE
- CSS/HTML
Operations experience
- Linux
- Chef
- nginx
- Apache
- MySQL
- memcached
- varnish
- Jenkins
Education
University of Cincinnati - 2006
BS Design from School of Design