Joey Pereira
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJoey Pereira is a Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and data platforms, currently working on Spark and Kafka at OpenAI. He previously led Stripe’s ledger platform and Cash & Transaction Speed team, cutting API latency and driving over $5M/year in storage and compute savings through deep infrastructure optimizations. Comfortable both broad and deep across the stack, Joey has shipped high-throughput Spark pipelines handling billions of records daily, contributed performance fixes to Flink, and even has a pending patent from his work on financial systems. A Waterloo valedictorian and former co-director of Hack the North, he pairs technical leadership and mentorship with a curiosity for the quirky corner cases of financial infrastructure. Based in Squamish, BC, he brings a rare blend of execution-focused engineering and systems-level cost and reliability thinking honed at Stripe, CockroachDB, Shopify, and early-stage startups.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Honours Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (200)
data-stream10
schema10
vscode-plugin10
sql-database10
datatypes10
aws-secrets-manager10
refresh-token10
oauth10
python10
converting10
wireguard10
ruby10
docker-container10
simulate10
kubernetes-secrets10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
lgo/sonorian-sim
Aug 2014 - Nov 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 5 pushes in 4 years 3 months
lgo/cockroach
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native SQL database.
Contributions:506 pushes, 138 branches in 3 months
db2mysqlsql-databasesqlcockroachdb
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