Grey Lathrop
Senior Software Engineer at Torc Robotics
Troy, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrey Lathrop is a senior software engineer and platform architect with 18 years of experience building and operating large-scale, production systems across startups and enterprise teams. He’s a polyglot developer—notably Go, Python, Scala, and Lisp—with deep SRE and Kubernetes expertise, currently managing a 500-node cluster for autonomous vehicle simulation and improving uptime from 90% to 99%. Grey has driven significant cost and reliability gains (about $30k/month AWS savings) while mentoring engineers and shaping operational best practices. His background spans founding-stage ops roles through senior architecture positions at Salesforce, MuleSoft, and others, and includes hands-on work in Cassandra, automation, and cluster tooling. Based in Troy, Michigan, he pairs startup grit and multiple exits with a pragmatic focus on observability, resilience, and repeatable platform engineering.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Michigan Technological UniversityIncomplete Bachelors Network Computing, Incomplete Bachelors Network Computing at Northern Michigan University
Github Skills (7)
testing10
puppeteer10
puppet10
ruby10
documentation9
back-end-development9
regular-expression8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
krux/puppet-module-graphite-report
Jul 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year 6 months
puppetpuppet-modulereportsendinggraphite
plathrop/puppet-module-supervisor
Apr 2010 - Sep 2016
Contributions:54 commits, 18 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 years 6 months
daemonpuppet-modulesupervisorpuppet
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