Chase Wilson
Lakebase Associate Director
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChase Wilson is a Senior Corporate Solutions Architect based in Austin with 8 years of experience designing high-performance distributed systems and accelerating application speed at scale. He combines hands-on backend engineering—especially in databases, compilers, IRs, and incremental computation—with a customer-facing track record of driving Redis adoption for caching, streaming, search, job queues, and ML feature stores. Promoted early at Redis after closing the most corporate deals and ARR across multiple quarters, he translates field insights into product roadmap influence. His open-source work touches notable Rust and systems projects (timely-dataflow, docs.rs, DDlog) where he’s improved code generation, performance, and build reliability. Comfortable moving between deep technical optimization and enterprise architecture, he brings a rare blend of compiler-level thinking to practical cloud and data platform problems. He’s as likely to profile a query plan as he is to design a migration strategy for a sub-$3B enterprise.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Trinity University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
ddl10
datalog10
dataflow-programming10
dataflow10
code-generation10
dd10
rust10
concurrency10
data-structure9
postgresql9
algorithm9
algorithms9
flatbuffers9
build-automation9
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-archive/differential-datalog
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
DDlog is a programming language for incremental computation. It is well suited for writing programs that continuously update their output in response to input changes. A DDlog programmer does not write incremental algorithms; instead they specify the desired input-output mapping in a declarative manner.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:140 reviews, 111 commits, 42 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Chase primarily worked on improving the code generation process and added features related to profiles and workspace toggles, suggesting they were involved in the core functionality and build process of the DDlog language. They modified test files, adding and removing code related to various tests. Their work involved changes to the Haskell code responsible for compilation and FlatBuffer bindings and incorporated Rustfmt for code formatting, indicating a focus on build processes and codebase quality.
programming-languagedatalogddlogrustincremental
rust-lang/docs.rs
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
crates.io documentation generator
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 227 commits, 79 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chase primarily contributed to the `docs.rs` documentation generator, focusing on backend functionalities. Their work involved adding and modifying build processes, including test utilities, and refactoring code related to data storage and retrieval. They were responsible for updating dependencies and porting the project to the 2018 edition of Rust, demonstrating a strong understanding of backend system architecture and dependencies.
documentation-generator
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