Drew Ripberger
PHD Student at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDrew Ripberger is a PhD student in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University with nine years of industry experience building performance-focused software. He joined CMU-DB after working on performance and scale engineering at Red Hat and completing research internships at Microsoft and Red Hat. Drew combines systems-level engineering with research rigor, focusing on making large-scale systems more efficient and reliable. He holds a BS in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and brings practical production experience from roles at Nirmata and Red Hat. Notably, his trajectory blends academic research and hands-on performance optimization, positioning him to bridge cutting-edge database research and real-world distributed systems challenges. Based in Pittsburgh, he contributes at the intersection of research and production engineering.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The Ohio State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (65)
nfd9
rust9
tooling9
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logging9
datadog9
openshift9
compiler8
apm-agent8
artifacts8
rust-lang8
monitoring8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
drewrip/topsail
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Test Orchestrator for Performance and Scalability of AI pLatforms
Contributions:318 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 1 month
drewrip/.emacs.d
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
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