Payton Byrd
Software Engineer at Freelance (Self employed)
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolPayton Byrd is a pragmatic software engineer with 16 years of experience building high-performance systems across HealthTech and EdTech, currently operating as a freelance full-stack developer and DevOps practitioner in Virginia. He specializes in performance engineering, system optimization, and advanced data representation techniques—drawing on hands-on experimentation with memory allocators, compression, GPU parallelism, and probabilistic operations. Payton blends enterprise-grade tooling (CI/CD, SBOM verification, container orchestration) with low-level curiosity, exploring eBPF-based private kernel modules and live patching for novel system capabilities. Comfortable across APIs (REST, GraphQL, RPC), databases, and cross-platform packaging, he frequently owns entire delivery lifecycles from UI to deployment. His work is marked by a taste for pushing boundaries—using personal hardware and reinforcement-learning–inspired ideas to improve data processing and cognitive-health–oriented tooling.
16 years of coding experience
Liberty UniversityMcLennan Community CollegeWestern Governors University
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gatewayprogrammingschool/BodyAndBrain
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Body and Brain - Simple Role Playing System
Contributions:39 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 2 months
brainbodyrole-playingroleplaying
gatewayprogrammingschool/SimpleThreading
Jul 2017 - Aug 2022
Simple library of collections and other tools to improve your application's threading behaviors.
Contributions:3 releases, 96 commits, 17 PRs in 5 years 1 month
behaviorsdata-exchangepulsethreadingrecurly
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