About
Brian Neradt
Independent software consultant in the Champaign-Urbana area. This site is the public face of that work: software, websites, and hosting.
I studied computer science at the University of Illinois. My career has been systems software: protocol performance, HTTP proxies, testing infrastructure, and the unglamorous work of making a release that other people can deploy.
A large part of that has been Apache Traffic Server — features, tests, CI, and the odd CVE — and Proxy Verifier, a tool used to drive HTTP traffic in tests. Those repos are a better résumé than a paragraph.
I also host public websites from home, including this one. The hosting offer exists because the machine already does the job, and a lot of small organizations overpay for hosting they barely use.