David Byrne
Engineering Manager at InfluxData
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Byrne is an engineering manager based in Seattle with five years of recent experience leading development of high-performance time-series databases, currently overseeing InfluxDB v1 OSS/Enterprise, v2 OSS and the Amazon Timestream integration. He combines hands-on systems programming—bug fixes, performance tuning, and logging improvements for InfluxDB’s high-write workloads—with team leadership, moving work from Go into emerging Rust-based systems for Version 3. His background spans OS, database and enterprise software from early work at Microsoft through senior engineering and VP roles scaling teams and SaaS at Terra Technology and E2open, so he blends deep technical troubleshooting with product and operational judgment. Notably, his open-source contributions to InfluxDB focused on stability and index optimization under heavy ingestion, reflecting a practical focus on real-world reliability and observability.
5 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at Yale UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shady Side Academy
English, c#, c++, c, lisp, sql, go, rust
Github Skills (12)
tsd10
error-handling10
databases10
go10
influxdb10
database10
concurrency9
performance-optimization9
logging8
filesystem8
fileio8
file-operations8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/influxdb
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 846 reviews, 220 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the stability and performance of the InfluxDB database. Their contributions include fixing critical bugs related to data handling, such as preventing double connection closures and correcting memory access issues. The user also worked on optimizing the fields index and adding more detailed logging to improve troubleshooting and monitoring capabilities within the system. These efforts directly enhance the database's efficiency, particularly under heavy write loads.
real-time-analyticsscalablereactanalyticsevents
davidby-influx/github-slideshow
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
roboticsrosrobottraining
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