Herko Lategan
Member Of The Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHerko Lategan is a computer scientist and seasoned backend engineer with 12 years’ experience designing reliable, scalable distributed systems and data processing pipelines. Currently a Member of the Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs, he contributes to the testing and CI infrastructure of the widely used CockroachDB and bridges backend development with DevOps and load-balancer integration. Previously he led the development of a next-generation streaming engine and built low-latency fraud-detection and large-scale data processing platforms on GCP using Beam, Dataflow, Spark and Kafka. A polyglot in Java, Kotlin, Scala and C-family languages, he combines deep systems-level thinking (from IoT firmware and hardware he built as a founder) with product-focused delivery at scale. Known for methodical research into new technologies, he favors elegant, maintainable solutions to complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hons (Cum Laude), Computer Science, Hons (Cum Laude), Computer Science at University of StellenboschMatric with Distinction, Matric with Distinction at D.F. Malan High School
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Github Skills (12)
test-framework10
go10
cicd10
testing10
devops9
load-balancing9
infrastructure9
google-cloud-platform8
databases8
gcp8
database8
back-end-development8
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Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:928 reviews, 10 commits, 439 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Herko's contributions primarily involve adding and modifying test specifications for native libraries within the CockroachDB testing framework, indicating a focus on improving the testing infrastructure. They introduced new functions and modified existing ones to verify the availability of required libraries, ensuring tests can run successfully. Further contributions relate to CI improvements and fixing artifact publishing within the weekly testing workflow. Additionally, they made updates to load balancer configuration, which shows a further knowledge of infrastructure integration.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
herkolategan/cockroach
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:1376 pushes, 372 branches in 2 years 3 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
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