Damien Katz
Software Engineer at PlanetScale
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorDamien Katz is a seasoned software engineer and distributed systems expert with over a decade of experience designing and shipping highly reliable database and storage systems. A principal creator of Apache CouchDB and former CTO/chief architect at Couchbase, he has driven large-scale projects at MySQL, AWS Aurora, Salesforce and multiple startups, often diving into C, C++, Erlang and Rust to fix critical issues himself. Damien specializes in connection handling, replication and storage engines, and has a track record of simple, unorthodox solutions that scale in production. He pairs deep system-level expertise with strong communication and product instincts—having led teams, written widely read technical posts, and even built a startup around CouchDB. Based in California, he also tinkers outside software (remodeled a kitchen, rebuilt a porch) and once authored a high-performance MySQL connection handler now published on GitHub.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
encryption9
noise9
fhe9
crypto9
protocols9
ssl9
c999
rocksdb8
database8
cryptography8
search-engine7
rust7
nodejs6
javascript5
browser1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Damienkatz/threadpool_epoll
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pipedown/noisecpp
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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