Gary Edgar
Implementation Engineer
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Edgar is an Implementation Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience in customer-facing infrastructure, SRE, and DevOps roles across startups and enterprise accounts. He has a strong track record at PlanetScale driving performance improvements—doubling QPS and halving p99 latency for Twitter’s Vitess deployments—and brings practical expertise in database clustering, failover tuning, and production incident response. Gary’s background spans on-site professional services and large-scale Kubernetes and virtual appliance deployments for customers like Microsoft and eBay, combined with earlier QA and systems engineering foundations where he found hundreds of defects and automated testbeds. An active contributor to the Vitess project, he focuses on improving build and release processes and packaging for production use. Known for bridging technical support, consulting, and engineering, he excels at translating deep systems knowledge into repeatable operational improvements.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, Philosophy, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, Philosophy at University of Delaware
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
vitess10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
mysql9
bash9
docker8
dockers8
go7
cnc6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 21 PRs, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gary Edgar's contributions primarily centered on improving the build and release processes for Vitess. He made modifications to `make-release-packages.sh`, including disabling a shellcheck check and incorporating instructions for local installation. He also updated dependencies within the `go.mod` file, and adjusted the packaging process to exclude specific directories. Furthermore, he made changes to the install directory structure, which is consistent with DevOps responsibilities.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
planetscale/vitess-releases
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Vitess releases
Contributions:87 releases, 146 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 6 months
typescriptvitessvite
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