Brian Caulfield
SDE II - Distributed SQL at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Caulfield is a systems-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance, fault-tolerant storage and distributed systems, currently shaping distributed commits for Aurora Distributed SQL at AWS. He brings deep hands‑on expertise across the storage stack—from kernel-level block allocators and async IO to control-plane services—and has driven measurable results like a 4x throughput improvement and global ramp of an EBS control-plane service. A pragmatic Rust enthusiast with five years of experience (three in production), he specializes in async Rust, concurrency control, and I/O performance tuning for latency-sensitive services. Brian combines low-level debugging and kernel work with large-scale service design, making him comfortable optimizing both hot paths and operational fleets.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Computer Science, Associates Computer Science at Orange Coast College2 Years of Study Architecture & Planning, 2 Years of Study Architecture & Planning at University of Colorado BoulderUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (25)
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testing6
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data-visualization5
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brotaku13/Genos
May 2023 - Jun 2023
An autograder framework for Gradescope
Contributions:10 reviews, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 month
brotaku13/pyLiquor
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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