Christopher Y
Software Engineer at Cockroach Labs
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Y is a software engineer with seven years of experience currently building at Cockroach Labs in the San Francisco Bay Area. He brings a strong computer science foundation from UC Irvine (BS, 3.68 GPA) and practical experience across startups and security-focused teams, including Raptee Energy and FireEye. His background spans backend and data-oriented work, informed by a brief but insightful role as a marketing data analyst that sharpened his ability to translate metrics into product decisions. At Cockroach Labs he works on resilient, distributed systems—applying that distributed-systems mindset to both performance and reliability challenges. Based in a major hub for cloud-native innovation, he combines startup agility with the discipline needed for production-grade infrastructure. Colleagues would describe him as technically curious, metrics-driven, and effective at turning complex problems into maintainable code.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
postgresql10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
distributed-systems10
go10
sql10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
database10
charts7
helm5
terraform-provider4
terraform4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yecs1999/cockroach
Aug 2021 - Sep 2024
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
yecs1999/cs137_proj1
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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