Garand Tyson

Garand Tyson is a Senior Core Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation, specializing in protocol development and C++ software engineering for a high-performance L1 blockchain. Tyson's expertise includes ledger state management, validator/ecosystem incentives, and performance optimization in validator implementation and custom databases. Prior experience includes roles as a researcher at Stanford Future of Digital Currency Initiative, working on firmware systems in C, and as part of a quantitative systems team at The D. E. Shaw Group, focusing on latency-sensitive trading systems. Tyson has also contributed to pre-silicon hardware emulation at AMD, developed security features for UEFI firmware at Microsoft, and has a rich background in educational roles, mentoring students in STEM subjects. Tyson holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Computer Science from the same institution.