Dominick Twitty
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolDominick Twitty is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with 12 years of experience building and scaling large distributed systems, currently focused on exabyte-scale storage and pub/sub infrastructure at LinkedIn. He previously led engineering for Google App Ads, designing latency-critical services, petabyte-scale pipelines, and ML-driven bidding systems that expanded product reach under tight UX and resource constraints. Dominick combines deep backend performance expertise with practical data-pipeline and storage design, having worked across Kafka, global low-latency services, and ad-exchange integrations. He began his career optimizing database and computer vision backends and contributed to academic instruction in algorithms at Cornell, reflecting a strong foundational and systems-oriented mindset. Colleagues would note his knack for turning resource-constrained requirements into efficient, production-grade solutions that scale.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Fitch High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Cornell University
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Github Skills (21)
kafka10
apache9
java9
scala9
kafka-consumer9
apache-kafka9
testing4
vertx3
jdbc2
cluster-manager2
checker2
python1
distributed-systems1
zookeeper1
paxos1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
deedy/Compilers
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:221 commits in 3 months
dtwitty/rust-sudoku
Jan 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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