Dennis Coyle
Associate Director Engineering
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolDennis Coyle is an Associate Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, distributed systems and leading managers and engineers to deliver high-quality customer experiences at Carvana. He sets vision and operational rigor for core vehicle experience teams, taking products from R&D prototypes to highly reliable, production-grade systems used across the business. A hands-on former backend engineer, Dennis has deep expertise in Go, gRPC, Kubernetes and storage and networking layers, contributing to open-source projects like Storj’s decentralized object storage. He advises startups and angel-invests, bringing servant-leadership and product-market fit instincts to early teams alongside his enterprise delivery skills. Based in Atlanta, he pairs a dual background in economics and computer science with a track record of balancing urgency and engineering excellence. An organizer of local Kubernetes meetups, he quietly bridges community advocacy with pragmatic engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics/ Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics/ Computer Science at Georgia State University
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Github Skills (7)
distributed-systems10
go10
overlay10
overlays10
protobuf10
grpc10
protocol-buffers10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
storj/storj
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 commits, 144 PRs, 163 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Dennis contributed to the back-end development of the Storj project by implementing gRPC server and client functionalities. They focused on creating and modifying Protocol Buffer definitions for communication within the overlay network, including the `overlay.proto` and `duration.proto` files. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating the gRPC server and client to the storage and cache layer, also fixing imports to align with the correct repository structure. These contributions indicate a focus on the network layer.
golangsecureaffordabledistributed-storageongoing
coyle/storj
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 403 pushes, 106 branches in 1 year 3 months
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