George Teo
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Teo is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, large-scale back-end systems from San Francisco Bay Area. Currently at Databricks after four years at Uber, he brings deep expertise in distributed systems and production reliability, illustrated by contributions to Cherami's cmq repair tool to safely manage missing extents and Cassandra timeouts. He pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship experience (Hackbright Academy) and operational leadership from prior service as a company executive officer in the Singapore Armed Forces. Comfortable navigating complex metadata and failure modes, he focuses on pragmatic, auditable fixes that improve long-running services. A University of Chicago computer science graduate, he combines rigorous technical foundations with a track record of shipping durable infrastructure at scale.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at American School in JapanBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of ChicagoSingapore American School
Japanese, English
Github Skills (9)
command-line-interface10
go10
cassandra10
command-line10
cli10
databases8
database8
sql-database8
relational-databases8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
uber-archive/cherami-server
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system. This project is deprecated and not maintained.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 23 days
Contributions summary:George focused on modifying the `cmq repair` tool within the Cherami server project. Their work involved adding the functionality to delete missing extents, incorporating a timeout flag for Cassandra calls, and a consistency flag. They also addressed comments and fixed a rebase error. The contributions indicate a focus on improving the tool's functionality and reliability related to metadata management.
golangscalablemessage-queuedurabletask-queue
uber-go/kafka-client
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Go client library for Apache Kafka
Contributions:221 commits, 74 PRs, 135 pushes in 1 year 4 months
golangapache-kafkakafka-consumerclient-librarygo-client
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