David Youngworth
Software Engineer at typedef
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Youngworth is a systems-focused software engineer with seven years of experience building high-performance, distributed storage and networking systems from embedded Linux to cloud-scale databases. He helped drive Snowflake’s metadata migration to open-source FoundationDB and later supported its integration into Unistore and Snowflake’s query engine, blending hands-on development with people leadership as an engineering manager. His background includes deep systems work at Saisei and Gigamon—designing memory-efficient in-memory host databases, TCP threat detection, and extremely high-throughput packet flow paths—as well as WAFL/FlexCache development at NetApp. An active contributor to the FoundationDB open-source project, he’s comfortable debugging core log systems, workload testing, and test automation in mission-critical codebases. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and a UC Berkeley EECS alum, he’s currently broadening his low-level systems and applications expertise while returning to hands-on engineering. Unobvious but telling: he combines embedded, networking, and cloud datastore experience, making him adept at bridging hardware-near constraints and large-scale distributed software design.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
EECS Computer Science, EECS Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (10)
transactional10
c-language10
key-value-store10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
testing10
python9
acid9
cmake8
documentation8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
apple/foundationdb
Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 37 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the FoundationDB codebase, focusing on areas such as workload testing and the core log system. They addressed a minor bug in the External Workload component and corrected ctest configurations. The user also removed some testing code. Additionally, the user made changes to support the versionstamp documentation.
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sfc-gh-dyoungworth/foundationdb
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:39 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 5 months
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