Glen Oakley
Senior Software Engineer at Discord
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGlen Oakley is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building reliable, high-performance infrastructure and storage systems for large-scale services. At Discord he engineered a hybrid storage solution that boosted read performance by ~150%, simplified cluster topology, and hardened VM recovery and zero-trust access across the fleet. Previously at Thumbtack he led service-mesh, canarying, and monitoring initiatives and built cost-effective pipelines for scrubbed Postgres data and WAL streaming. He combines deep systems tuning (e.g., introducing ScyllaDB at scale) with pragmatic developer ergonomics and automation via Terraform and bespoke tooling. Glen pairs rigorous CS foundations (cum laude degree) with hands-on operational instincts, often surfacing simple, high-impact changes like replacing backend stores with cookie-based session designs. Outside the obvious metrics, he consistently focuses on reducing cognitive and maintenance load for teams while improving system observability and safety.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree (cum laude), Computer Science, 3.73, Bachelor's Degree (cum laude), Computer Science, 3.73 at The College of New Jersey
English
Github Skills (159)
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dashboard10
distributed-tracing10
firewall10
bastion10
rdp10
grafana10
terraform10
security10
infrastructure10
profiling10
elasticsearch10
stream-processing10
pam10
fluentd10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
goakley/reuuid-howto
Mar 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 8 years 1 month
pythonvscodevscode-extensionsnippetslanguages
rohe/pysaml2-3
May 2015 - Mar 2023
Python3 implementation of SAML2
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 11 months
samlpythonpython3saml2
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