Gavin Towey
Data Management Consultant
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarGavin Towey is a data management consultant with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and operating high-scale MySQL and storage systems. He has driven major reliability and cost-optimization initiatives at companies like Airtable and Box, including a >99.99% uptime effort and $3M/year archival cost savings, and scaled MySQL from 20k to 500k QPS at Box. Gavin blends deep database internals and automation expertise—ProxySQL deployments, RDS orchestration, sharding, and disaster recovery—with practical DevOps experience fixing complex Vagrant and deployment issues for projects like openark/orchestrator. He is an active open-source contributor (notably to Box’s Anemometer slow-query monitor) and a pragmatic team lead who writes tooling, docs, and talks to spread operational knowledge. Based in Bend, Oregon, he consults directly on performance tuning, high-availability architectures, and large-scale migrations, and is known for a pragmatic, no-nonsense engineering style (his GitHub motto: "Friends don't let friends code under the influence").
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
docker10
performance-monitor10
mysql10
bash10
system-management10
dockers10
system10
sql10
management10
performance-monitoring10
replication10
vagrant10
high-availability9
schema9
php9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
box/Anemometer
Mar 2012 - Apr 2015
Box SQL Slow Query Monitor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Anemometer project, a Box SQL Slow Query Monitor. Their work focused on enhancing the system's capabilities, as evidenced by adding support for MySQL performance_schema query digests, implementing timezone offset handling, and fixing various issues related to data population and display. They also introduced features such as tooltips for the graph search and improved the overall user experience.
querymonitorquery-monitorboxslow-query
box/mysqlutilities
Apr 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
s-boxmysqlbox
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