Drew Bailey
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Bailey is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building CI/CD platforms, workload orchestrators, and distributed systems for companies like Airbnb, Apple, and HashiCorp. He focuses on cloud infrastructure that is reliable, secure, and ergonomic, and led work on a novel CI/CD DSL at Apple before joining Airbnb’s infrastructure team. As a contributor to HashiCorp Nomad, he improved allocation internals, event-stream APIs, and cross-region deployment tooling—work that underpins large-scale orchestration. Known for bridging deep backend systems work with developer-facing ergonomics, he excels at turning complex distributed problems into auditable, operational solutions. Based in Philadelphia, Drew combines production-grade engineering with a pragmatic product sensibility informed by platform and open-source experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business Information Technology at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (10)
go10
api10
apidoc10
event-streaming10
concurrency10
nomad9
distributed-systems9
json8
system-administration8
messagepack8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 342 reviews, 485 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Drew primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Nomad project. Their commits focused on improving the internal workings of the allocation system, addressing blocking issues related to template prestart hooks. They also made optimizations to the event stream APIs and provided functionality to track events, including adding support for filtering and providing a stream endpoint. Additionally, they enhanced the operator's ability to manage licenses and view the status of deployments across regions.
vaultperformantmicroserviceworkloadoperate
drewbailey/til-rb
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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