Jeff Swenson
Member Of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Swenson is a seasoned backend engineer and database specialist with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs in New York. He previously held senior engineering and team lead roles at Google and Epic, bringing production experience across large-scale cloud services and healthcare software. At Cockroach Labs he contributes to CockroachDB, working on tenant management, cross-region features, and a major architecture change for regional-by-row compatible indexes—demonstrating deep expertise in resilient, geo-distributed SQL systems. His blend of hands-on database internals work and operational metrics improvements shows a focus on both correctness and observability. A University of Minnesota computer science graduate, he also has roots in software education as a teaching assistant, which complements his collaborative, mentorship-oriented approach. Notably, his open-source contributions to a high-profile cloud-native database indicate comfort navigating complex, production-critical codebases.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, German
Github Skills (7)
go10
distributed-database10
sql10
back-end-development10
database-design10
testing10
database-administration9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
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 & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:553 reviews, 38 commits, 205 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on modifying and improving the CockroachDB database's server and SQL instance operations. Their contributions involved addressing issues related to tenant management, including modifications for decommissioned node handling, and enhancements to metrics related to connections. Additionally, the user made database-level changes, such as the addition of new database features for cross-region operations and improvements to the handling of system database features. They also worked on adding support for regional by row compatible index, a major architecture change.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
jeffswenson/cockroach
Jun 2021 - Apr 2025
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:13 reviews, 16 PRs, 736 pushes in 3 years 10 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
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