Darryl Wong
Member Of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarryl Wong is a back-end and database engineer with six years of software experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs in New York. He has hands-on expertise in distributed SQL systems, contributing to CockroachDB’s backup and restore features with notable work integrating Google Cloud KMS for encrypted backups and implementing ALTER BACKUP re-encryption. His internship experiences at Amazon, Cockroach Labs, and FactSet complement a solid Computer Science foundation from the University of Michigan. Comfortable in production-grade code and testing, he brings a practical focus on security, scalability, and operational reliability to cloud-native database engineering.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (10)
re-store10
backup10
go10
postgresql10
cockroachdb10
sql10
database-design10
encryption10
testing9
distributed-database9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Database Engineer
Back-end & Database EngineerContributions:737 reviews, 16 commits, 343 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Darryl primarily contributed to enhancing the backup and restore functionality of the CockroachDB database, focusing on integrating Google Cloud KMS for encryption and decryption. Their work included adding support for Google Cloud KMS encryption, adding test cases for Google Cloud KMS encryption and decryption as well as adding support for the ALTER BACKUP SQL statement to re-encrypt already KMS encrypted backups. The user also modified existing code to add support for Google Cloud KMS.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
DarrylWong/fork
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:1215 pushes, 263 branches in 3 years 3 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
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