Summary
Larry Marburger is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years building and operating distributed data processing systems, now contributing to Temporal Technologies. He excels at incremental, risk-aware modernization—replacing monoliths with safer, shadowed rollouts and sequencing high-risk work early to minimize customer impact. His background spans founding a product-focused startup, improving production databases at scale, and creating customer-facing observability tooling that reduced support load. Larry prioritizes systems that run independently of on-call engineers by documenting failure modes, automating mitigations, and teaching teams to interpret operational signals. He pairs backend depth (Postgres, Kafka, Kubernetes) with product empathy developed at Glide and Segment, often digging into frontend behavior to trace root causes. Colleagues know him for pragmatic architecture decisions and an unusual appetite for formalizing transient, nondeterministic system behavior.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer