Drew Bailey
Founding Engineer at Weave (YC W25)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDrew Bailey is a founding engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of hands-on experience building high-throughput backend systems, developer tooling, and DevOps automation. He brings deep language fluency in Java, Kotlin and Rust combined with a strong security and systems background—having improved ingestion pipelines for multi-terabyte datasets, cut deploy times by 96% through containerization, and optimized memory and indexing performance in production services. Drew has repeatedly shipped greenfield products and platform features (notably PubNub’s Illuminate and Events & Actions) and has run Kubernetes-based JupyterHub deployments for data workflows. Comfortable both setting up networking and datacenter infrastructure and writing low-level integrations (JNI, cryptography), he blends infrastructure-level thinking with product-focused delivery. He’s equally at home contracting for large enterprises and founding early-stage engineering efforts, bringing a pragmatic, performance-driven approach that surfaces in measurable operational wins.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Internetworking, Certificate Internetworking at Center of Applied Technology SouthHigh School Computers?, High School Computers? at South River High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of MarylandAssociate’s Degree Transfer Studies (Information Systems Security), Associate’s Degree Transfer Studies (Information Systems Security) at Anne Arundel Community College
Spanish
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Github Skills (129)
api10
api-documentation10
ecosystem9
golang9
database9
docker9
keybindings9
java9
sqlite9
x128
sql8
rest8
playing8
react-component8
markdown8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
stateofca/dmv-dlir-ica-react
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:21 PRs, 27 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
reacticamotorreact-componentsvoter
kryptnostic/slate
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:16 PRs, 15 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
apiopenapimarkdown
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