Brian Toth
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBrian Toth is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems for recommendations, service deployment, and data pipelines. He has driven ML-backed recommendation platforms at Netflix and now leads infrastructure and reliability work at Google, focusing on simplicity, automation, and measurable business impact through A/B testing and cost/latency optimization. His background includes building etcd-backed service orchestration, distributed coordinators for data workflows, and secure secrets management—skills that bridge core infrastructure and product-facing experimentation. An active contributor to open source, he has implemented advanced features in PouchDB (including map-reduce joins and a GraphQL plugin) indicating a full-stack appetite that spans testing, adapters, and core internals.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (9)
databases10
couchdb10
hadoop-mapreduce10
javascript10
pouchdb10
mapreduce10
database10
testing10
nodejs9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pouchdb/pouchdb
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
:kangaroo: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian implemented map-reduce join functionality and integrated a new "gql" plugin into the PouchDB project. They also addressed conflicts within the "webrunner" test environment and made adjustments to the core PouchDB and adapter files. Their contributions included changes to the testing infrastructure and modification of source files, indicating involvement across multiple aspects of the project. Finally, they added and then linted test files.
pocketjavascriptdatabasepouchdbcouchdb
briantoth/briantoth.github.com
Mar 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:48 commits in 1 year 5 months
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