Cedric Van Goethem
Production Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCedric Van Goethem is a Production Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale storage and IaaS platforms, currently leading database and storage efforts for Twine, Meta’s cluster management and containerization platform, from London. He previously scaled and hardened LogDevice—the log abstraction layer powering Meta’s massive Scribe pipeline—focusing on reliability, monitoring, automation and both flash and HDD storage characteristics. Cedric combines deep backend systems expertise with hands-on incident avoidance work (deadlock fixes, metadata cleanups and serialization improvements) evidenced by contributions to the archived LogDevice project. He’s comfortable partnering with datastores like MySQL and ZippyDB and translates low-level performance tuning into production-ready platform features. A Ghent University graduate with top honors, he brings a research-grade attention to detail to pragmatic, high-throughput infrastructure engineering.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, With Distinction, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, With Distinction at Ghent University
Dutch, English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
c-language10
backend10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
concurrency10
system-design9
rocksdb9
flatbuffers8
byte6
asp-net6
password-protection6
math6
encryption6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/LogDevice
Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
Distributed storage for sequential data
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 2 comments, 7 issues in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Cedric's contributions primarily focused on improving the stability and performance of the `logdevice` system. They addressed a deadlock issue in the fatal signal handler, preventing zombie processes. The user also refactored the system by replacing `GET_LOG_INFO` messages with the `LOGS_CONFIG_API_Message` for better background processing and serialization. Additionally, they cleaned up metadata log configuration to improve system reliability and also removed an unnecessary heap allocation.
distributed-storagedatabasestoragesequentialsequential-data
diamondo25/Zepheus_Fiesta
Oct 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:2 commits in 3 months
emulatoremulationfiesta
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