Darin Peshev
Software Engineer at Lead
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarin Peshev is a seasoned software engineer with nine years focused on back-end and distributed systems, currently building at Lead in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent four productive years at Cockroach Labs contributing to the cloud-native CockroachDB—improving its SQL proxy, multi-tenant test infrastructure, and operational metrics for better observability and CPU efficiency. Prior roles at Square, RMS, AllianceBernstein, and AXA Rosenberg give him a strong foundation in production-grade systems and financial services software. He combines hands-on engineering and DevOps sensibilities, often optimizing testing and telemetry to make large-scale services more maintainable. Notably, his open-source contributions to a high-profile distributed SQL database demonstrate an emphasis on reliability and measurable operational improvements. He brings pragmatic problem-solving and a track record of improving both code quality and runtime behavior in complex, multi-tenant environments.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of San Francisco
Github Skills (12)
testing10
prometheus10
go10
distributed-database10
sql10
metric10
database9
devops9
admin9
database-administration9
databases9
cicd8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:89 reviews, 105 commits, 119 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Darin primarily focused on enhancing the CockroachDB's SQL proxy and its associated testing infrastructure. Their contributions included modifying the test scripts for multi-tenant setups to work with the latest codebase, and refactoring the FrontendAdmit return type for better maintainability. They also added a metric to track running non-idle jobs. Moreover, the user worked on the load endpoint, adding uptime-related metrics for more efficient CPU usage monitoring, and improving status reporting by selectively exporting metrics.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
darinpp/cockroach
Mar 2019 - Sep 2023
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native SQL database.
Contributions:320 pushes, 127 branches in 4 years 7 months
mysqlsql-databasesqlcockroachdboracle
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