Coba Weel
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Davis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCoba Weel is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years building distributed systems, observability tooling, and developer productivity platforms, currently returning to Palantir. He has a track record of turning slow, fragile build-and-test workflows into fast, reliable CI systems that run full test suites on developer laptops within minutes, and has founded and grown teams to deliver those improvements. His background includes designing distributed tracing at Facebook and architecting subsystems for a transactional database at Palantir, pairing deep systems expertise with pragmatic product focus. A committed mentor and manager, he prioritizes hiring and developing diverse teams while shifting organizations from waterfall to agile practices. An unusual personal detail: some of his earlier repositories still use a previous name, reflecting a long history across companies and roles. Based in Davis, California, he blends academic training from Caltech and VU Amsterdam with real-world experience shipping large-scale infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
(exchange student), (exchange student) at University of California, BerkeleyMSc Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, MSc Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)MA Economics, MA Economics at George Mason UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyDiploma VWO (gymnasium), Diploma VWO (gymnasium) at Graaf Huyn College (High School)work toward BSc (transferred out) Science, work toward BSc (transferred out) Science at Utrecht University
Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (35)
busybox10
rewrite10
command-line-tool10
gnu10
binaries9
homebrew9
cli9
administration9
rust8
macos8
nim-language8
cross-platform8
coreutils8
linux8
behavior6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cobaweel/willow
Nov 2009 - Nov 2010
Contributions:25 commits in 11 months
pythonexperimental-economicseconomicspython-framework
cobaweel/aoc
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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