Blake Matheny
| Blake Matheny | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 23, 1979 Stamford, Connecticut |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Blake Matheny is an engineering director at Facebook where he is responsible for Linux kernel development.[1] Prior to joining Facebook, Blake was one of the first dozen engineers at Tumblr. At Tumblr Blake was the engineer primarily responsible for developing collins [2] and memkeys[3], along with several other open source projects. Blake was also an active contributor to finagle[4], an RPC framework developed at Twitter.
Blake attended Purdue University. At Purdue University, Blake was a research student of Jeffrey Mark Siskind and Eugene Spafford, focused on the security related research. Blake also collaborated with graduate students Brian Carrier[5] and Aaron Walters.
Selected Honors and Awards[edit]
- Senior Member of the IEEE since 2013
- Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery since 2013
Employment History[edit]
- 2013-Present: Facebook
- 2011-2013: Tumblr - acquired by Yahoo!
- 2009-2010: ChaCha
- 2007-2019: Compendium Blogware - acquired by Oracle
- 2004-2007: 3GUpload.com - acquired by VantagePoint Capital Partners
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Facebook Boosts Its Open Source Mojo With New Project, at wired.com, 2014. Discusses our work on Thrift.
- Facebook releases C++ libraries to ease Internet communications, at computerworld.com, 2014
- Interview with Blake Matheny, at soundcloud.com, 2014
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