Ashton Kemerling
Engineering Manager at Uber
Boise, Idaho, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolAshton Kemerling is an engineering manager with 16 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, cost-efficient systems for large consumer products. Currently at Uber in Aarhus after five years building internal tooling and data-quality platforms at Disney Streaming, he has driven measurable business impact—saving tens of millions via architectural redesigns and cutting cloud DVR costs by 75%. He combines hands-on backend experience (including Prometheus exporter work in the Rust metrics ecosystem) with strong people leadership, growing teams, lowering attrition, and mentoring engineers into senior and management roles. His background spans high-throughput trading systems, consumer web platforms, and telemetry/data pipelines, enabling him to bridge product, data, and engineering priorities. Comfortable operating in distributed and remote environments, he repeatedly delivers incident-free launches for high-stakes events through early planning and load testing. He holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Loyola University Chicago and brings a pragmatic focus on observability, performance, and maintainability.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago
English
Stackoverflow
875reputation
69kreached
7answers
12questions
Github Skills (15)
rust10
prometheus10
telemetry10
metric10
hashmap9
testing8
git6
provisioning6
chef-infra6
vagrant6
google-app-engine6
python6
bigtable6
virtualization6
java6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
metrics-rs/metrics
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
A metrics ecosystem for Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ashton primarily contributed to the Prometheus exporter implementation within the metrics-rs/metrics repository. Their work focused on adding global labels to metrics and improving usability by shifting from `String` to `Into<String>` for user convenience. The user also made modifications to the test suite, refactoring existing tests for greater reliability by simplifying examples and formatting code. These changes suggest an effort to improve the overall functionality and maintainability of the exporter.
rusttelemetryecosystemmetricsrust-lang
AshtonKem/HugoBlog
Mar 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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