Graeme Connell

Graeme Connell has worked in the software engineering field since 2005. Graeme began their career as a Network Security Intern at Middlebury College, where they developed an automated system to handle outbreaks of network worms. In 2006, they worked as a Network Security Administrator at Strayer University. Afterward, they moved to Google, working as a Staff Software Engineer from 2006 to 2021. During their time at Google, they worked on performance for backend data pipelines, improving systems for storing and handling SPII and encryption keys, built systems to detect DDoS and abuse on the Fiber ISP network, and developed developer tooling to make sense of large batch processing tasks on local machines. In 2021, they joined Signal Messenger as a Software Engineer, where they were the tech lead of a small team that quickly built and iterated an MVP product through its lifecycle from conception to launch.

Graeme Connell attended Middlebury College from 2001 to 2005, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Computer Science.