Daniel Tahara
Staff Distributed Systems Engineer at Tesla
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Tahara is a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, reliable serving infrastructure. Currently at Tesla after progressing from Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, he brings deep expertise in distributed systems, platform engineering, and infrastructure reliability from roles at Carbon Lighthouse and Dropbox. Daniel has a track record of leading platform teams and managing infrastructure efforts, blending hands-on engineering with technical leadership to ship resilient production services. His background includes early research and internship experience at Hadapt and Lookout, reflecting a long-standing focus on data and systems at scale. Though formally non-degree seeking at City College of San Francisco, he holds a BS from Yale, underscoring a mix of formal and practical training. Colleagues would note his ability to translate complex distributed-systems problems into pragmatic, operational solutions that scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Yale UniversityNon-Degree Seeking, Non-Degree Seeking at City College of San FranciscoEdgemont High School
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Github Skills (168)
programming-language10
python10
automation10
clustering10
scheduler10
scale10
sql10
golang10
database10
kubernetes10
horizontal-scaling10
mysql10
vitess10
scaling10
database-cluster10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
danieltahara/vitess
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Contributions:53 pushes, 15 branches in 5 months
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
danieltahara/k8s-jobs
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Async Job Manager + AWS Batch Replacement for K8s
Contributions:26 commits, 38 PRs, 67 pushes in 9 months
aws-batchbatchjobk8skubernetes
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