Chris Goffinet
Founder at ThreeComma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Goffinet is a founder and seasoned software engineer with nine years of professional experience building high-scale storage and distributed systems, including core contributions to Twitter's Manhattan database and Blobstore. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep systems expertise—kernels, network protocols, caching, and parallel distributed computing—with a strong business sensibility that translates product needs into reliable, high-performance architectures. He founded ThreeComma to help organizations reduce cloud and storage costs, applying the same performance-tuning and fault-tolerance principles honed at Yahoo!, Digg, and Twitter. Known for mentoring engineers and valuing quality engineering, he thrives on tackling ambitious, infrastructure-level challenges and optimizing systems at petabyte scale.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (183)
hyper-v10
tailscale10
wireguard10
scheduling10
vpn10
json10
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
virtualbox10
oauth10
qemu9
monitoring9
mesos9
circleci-orb9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
threecommaio/circleci-tailscale
Sep 2021 - May 2022
CircleCI Orb for Tailscale
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 8 months
circlecitailscalecircleci-orborb
ThreeCommaIO/helloworld
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
Basic hello world over HTTP
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
http-clienthttp-serverwebservergo
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