Caleb Lloyd
Co-Founder, Product & Engineering Lead at CodeCargo
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolCaleb Lloyd is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, SaaS control planes, and developer-focused tooling from the ground up. He has led engineering teams and product strategy as a founding engineer and director, most recently shaping Synadia’s unified control plane for NATS and founding an AI-native SDLC platform at CodeCargo. A prolific backend contributor, Caleb has improved performance and async transaction handling in popular .NET MySQL libraries and refactored EF Core MySQL integrations, demonstrating deep ADO.NET and database internals expertise. He pairs hands-on systems design—Kubernetes, Helm, Docker—with pragmatic delivery leadership across pre-sales, operations, and open source maintenance. Based in Raleigh, NC, he brings a track record of turning complex distributed requirements into stable, testable platforms while quietly pushing performance and connection-pool robustness in widely used database client libraries.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (23)
asynchronous10
back-end-development10
mysql10
async10
net10
dotnet10
entity-framework-core10
asp-net10
ado-net10
database-design10
dotnet-core10
ado10
csharp10
performance-testing9
htaccess9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
PomeloFoundation/Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
Entity Framework Core provider for MySQL and MariaDB built on top of MySqlConnector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 349 commits, 248 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Caleb's commits focused on modifying the ADO.NET layer, switching the implementation to `bgrainger/MySqlConnector`. They refactored database interaction code within the project, specifically the `MySqlModificationCommandBatch` class. Furthermore, the commits involved modifying the JsonObject to convert and serialize the request in the same connection.
auroradotnetprovidermysqlmysqlconnector
mysql-net/MySqlConnector
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
MySQL Connector for .NET
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 98 commits, 81 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Caleb's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the performance and functionality of the .NET MySQL Connector. They made changes to how unsigned types are handled within the data reader, ensuring accurate casting of values. Additionally, the user implemented and tested a performance testing application and introduced new methods related to asynchronous database transactions. The user's work also included refactoring connection pool-related code to improve its stability and behavior.
dotnetmysqlado-netmysql-connectorconnector
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