Jon Anderson
Staff Software Engineer at Fastly
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Anderson is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building distributed, cloud-native systems across telecommunications, robotics, and startup environments. He currently leads architecture and delivery at Fastly, leveraging expertise in C, Rust, Python, Go, and Erlang on UNIX/Linux, embedded, and cloud platforms. His background spans roles at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics, Basho Technologies, Kiva Systems, Joyent, BlockFi, and Goldman Sachs, reflecting a broad track record in large-scale distributed infrastructure. Jon is known for strong system design and mentoring, and he combines hands-on coding with clear communication to align teams around robust, secure architectures. On GitHub, he contributed to Basho's Riak KV store, improving security and stability, adding metrics for Yokozuna search, and addressing a dialyzer issue. Based in Cambridge, MA, with an MS in Computer Science from New York University, he blends academic rigor with practical delivery to ship reliable systems at scale.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (5)
riak10
erlang10
webmachine10
security9
database-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
basho/riak_kv
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Riak Key/Value Store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jon focused on improving the security and stability of the Riak Key/Value store. Their contributions include refactoring code related to resource validation and permission checks within the webmachine context. The user also added and modified code to include various statistics related to the Yokozuna search feature, as well as fixing a dialyzer issue.
javakey-valueriakkey-value-store
TritonDataCenter/rust-cueball-dns-resolver
May 2019 - Jan 2020
FSM-based DNS resolver for rust-cueball
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
dnsresolverrustfsmdns-resolver
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