Austen Lacy
Senior Staff Engineer, Database Platform
Greater Indianapolis United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAusten Lacy is a Senior Staff Engineer specializing in database platforms with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across AWS and GCP. Based in Greater Indianapolis, he has progressed through senior roles at Shopify—where he now focuses on databases—and previously drove reliability and SRE initiatives at Rollbar and platform work at High Alpha. He programs across Go, Python, and Node.js, and contributes to notable open-source projects like Vitess, fixing backend issues and adding end-to-end tests for MySQL horizontal scaling. Austen combines deep systems and test-automation expertise with hands-on cloud infrastructure design, and has a track record of operationalizing complex resharding and schema-management problems in production.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science BA, Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science BA at Indiana University Indianapolis
English, French
Github Skills (14)
databases10
vitess10
go10
database-administration10
admin10
mysql10
database10
testing9
automation9
automations9
database-cluster9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
sha8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 5 PRs, 26 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Austen primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to Vitess's backend functionalities. Their contributions include resolving issues in the tablet server's health check, addressing a dry-run bug in traffic switching during resharding events, and purging old schema versions from memory. Furthermore, the user demonstrated skills in test automation by implementing end-to-end tests and modifying existing tests to validate the correct behavior of the system.
clusteringdatabasehorizontal-scalingmysqlvitess
geofeedia/drone-k8s
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 20 pushes, 3 comments in 5 months
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