Austen Mcclernon
Software Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAusten Mcclernon is a software engineer with seven years of experience specializing in distributed databases and backend systems, most recently contributing to CockroachDB’s core replication and cluster load-distribution logic. He progressed from software engineer to senior engineer at Cockroach Labs and completed a Distributed Database Internals internship at Netflix, reflecting deep practical experience with cloud-native, highly available systems. Austen blends academic rigour—teaching graduate courses in distributed and parallel algorithms at the University of Melbourne—with hands-on engineering, and he’s an active open-source contributor on a high-profile project that demands correctness and observability. Based in New York, he pairs systems-level design with metric-driven improvements to replica behavior, a detail that highlights his focus on operational resilience as well as code.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (9)
databases10
distributed-systems10
go10
performance-optimization10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
replication9
load-balancing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1076 reviews, 110 commits, 662 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Austen primarily worked on the core database operations of CockroachDB. They focused on refining the replica statistics, making the operations agnostic to request types, and introducing new metrics to monitor the load on each replica. The user also made improvements to the code associated with cluster-wide load distribution.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
kvoli/fun-with-friends
Aug 2019 - Aug 2020
CRUD Registry App. Node/React/Mongo. Containerized and available on Dockerhub. Testing on TravisCI.
Contributions:1 release, 98 commits, 122 PRs in 1 year
reactdockerhubmongotestingcontainerized
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