Glen Oakley
Senior Software Engineer at Discord
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGlen Oakley is a San Francisco-based Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience delivering scalable, reliable infrastructure and data systems. At Discord, he has driven high-performance storage improvements, implemented zero-trust access across the fleet, and strengthened monitoring and RBAC-enabled SSO to minimize downtime. Earlier at Thumbtack, he led service-mesh adoption, built an Envoy control plane for traffic control, and guided AWS migrations to improve agility and cost efficiency. His technical breadth includes replacing Cassandra with ScyllaDB, advanced Terraform tooling, canary deployments, and near real-time data provisioning for developers. He earned cum laude in Computer Science from The College of New Jersey and combines hands-on engineering with a relentless focus on reliability and developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree (cum laude), Computer Science, 3.73, Bachelor's Degree (cum laude), Computer Science, 3.73 at The College of New Jersey
English
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Github Skills (184)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
goakley/reuuid-howto
Mar 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 8 years 1 month
pythonvscodevscode-extensionsnippetslanguages
rohe/pysaml2-3
May 2015 - Mar 2023
Python3 implementation of SAML2
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 11 months
samlpythonpython3saml2
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