George Lorch
Engineering Manager - Distro (conda) at Anaconda, Inc.
Bradenton, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Lorch is an experienced software engineering manager with over three decades in product delivery and a 13-year focused track record in engineering leadership, currently managing the conda distro at Anaconda. He has led globally distributed, cross-functional teams to ship high-quality releases at scale—most recently running large hybrid-cloud data pipelines that crawl billions of URLs and manage petabytes of data. A hands-on former principal engineer and storage-engine expert, George has deep expertise in databases and backend systems (notably MyRocks/TokuDB contributions and enhancements to PerconaFT including compression and checkpointing). He excels at mentoring engineers, aligning product roadmaps with execution, and optimizing processes for remote teams to consistently meet aggressive release cadences. Based in Bradenton, Florida, he combines low-level systems craftsmanship with pragmatic management of budgets and resources, and still codes on critical performance and storage challenges behind the scenes.
13 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (22)
c-language10
key-value-store10
databases10
data-structure10
data-structures10
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
performance-optimization9
fileio8
file-operations8
filesystem8
mysql8
mariadb6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
percona/PerconaFT
May 2015 - Jun 2020
PerconaFT is a high-performance, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 140 commits, 150 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:George's contributions focused on enhancing the PerconaFT key-value store. Their work included refactoring the status handling within the ft-index, introducing new checkpoint status variables, and exposing them as 'GLOBAL' status for easier parsing in MySQL. They also implemented Snappy compression and addressed a memory-related performance issue. The user also made changes to address the impact of updates and deletes on accurate row counting.
transactionalperformancedatabasekey-value-storekey-value
percona/debian-percona-server-5.6
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 months
debianubuntu
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