Brian Marete
Founder And CEO Of RowKeyDB
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Marete is a founder and systems-first engineer with ~15 years of experience and a seven-year SRE pedigree at Google, now building RowKeyDB and Chanzo to bring Bigtable-compatible databases and cost-effective observability to market. He blends deep systems and software expertise—advanced Go and C++ fluency—with hands-on work in confidential computing (Intel TDX, AMD SEV‑SNP) and secure attestation for AI workloads. Brian has shipped a Bigtable emulator in C++, contributed cryptography and backend work to prominent open-source projects like golang/crypto and Perkeep, and consistently focuses on reliability, performance, and pragmatic prototyping. Based in Dublin, he consults remotely on hard problems spanning SRE, observability engineering, and confidential compute, bringing founder-level product judgment to engineering execution.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at Illinois Institute of TechnologyTransferred, Electrical Engineering, Transferred, Electrical Engineering at University of Nairobi
Github Skills (10)
compression-algorithm10
blob-storage10
openpgp10
go10
cryptography10
security10
apidoc9
api9
filesystem8
fileio8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
golang/crypto
Jul 2013 - Jul 2015
[mirror] Go supplementary cryptography libraries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the `golang/crypto` repository by enhancing the `openpgp` package. Their work involved implementing support for BZIP2 compression, adding functionality for compressed data packets and compression during symmetric encryption. They also worked on allowing configuration of S2K hash and count, directly impacting key derivation and symmetric encryption processes. Furthermore, they fixed critical issues related to parsing invalid data, ensuring robustness of the library.
cryptographygo
perkeep/perkeep
Dec 2013 - May 2014
Perkeep (née Camlistore) is your personal storage system for life: a way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the back-end of the Perkeep project, demonstrating a strong understanding of Go. They were responsible for importing and integrating third-party Go packages, specifically focusing on cryptographic libraries and their integration. Further contributions included implementing and modifying core components for blob handling and storage, like introducing interfaces for blob streaming and modifying the blob structure. They also worked on fixing issues in existing components and integrating new features.
camlistore
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