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David M. Bryson

I build the infrastructure other engineers build on — distributed build systems, compilation and compute infrastructure, content-addressable storage. Before that I spent a decade in digital evolution research at Michigan State, working on Avida.

Experience

Principal EngineerAmazon Web Services

2026 – present

Compute AI Services.

Software Engineering ManagerApple

2024 – 2026

SWE Developer Productivity. Distributed build system infrastructure.

Senior Software ArchitectApple

2022 – 2024

SWE Developer Productivity. Distributed build system infrastructure.

Senior Software EngineerApple

2018 – 2022

  • Development Technologies. Distributed compilation infrastructure.
  • Xcode’s llbuild build system framework.
  • Content-addressable storage and function execution services.

Senior Software EngineerApple

2014 – 2018

  • Platform Architecture. Distributed batch compute infrastructure.
  • Control plane and data storage systems architecture.
  • Workload containerization and virtualization.

Senior Software EngineerDigital Evolution Laboratory, Michigan State University

2004 – 2014

  • High-performance research software development.
  • Instructor, CSE 450: Translation of Programming Languages.
  • Custom parallelized implementation of Fisher’s exact test for R × C contingency tables.

Digital Evolution Research SpecialistBEACON Center, Michigan State University

2012 – 2014

Digital evolution research and compute cluster management at an NSF Science & Technology Center.

Information TechnologistBEACON Center, Michigan State University

2010 – 2012

Center-wide infrastructure — web, database, email, storage — and custom web application development.

Embedded Software ConsultantGentex Corporation

2004 – 2006

Sole engineer of a C-based UI and control system for a Bluetooth hands-free system.

Information Technology ProfessionalLibraries, Michigan State University

2002 – 2010

Custom web application development; infrastructure design, deployment, and administration.

Education

Dual PhD Computer Science · Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Michigan State University
2012
BS, Computer Engineering Michigan State University
2004

Selected publications

  1. There and Back Again: Gene-Processing Hardware for the Evolution and Robotic Deployment of Robust Navigation Strategies

    Bryson DM, Wagner AP, Ofria C

    GECCO 2014, pages 689–696. ACM.

    doi:10.1145/2576768.2598363

  2. Understanding Evolutionary Potential in Virtual CPU Instruction Set Architectures

    Bryson DM, Ofria C

    PLoS ONE 8(12): e83242, 2013.

    doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083242

  3. Digital Evolution Exhibits Surprising Robustness to Poor Design Decisions

    Bryson DM, Ofria C

    Artificial Life 13, pages 19–26. MIT Press, 2012.

    doi:10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-ch003

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