Lloyd Tabb
Bike Mechanic at llooker, inc
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarLloyd Tabb is a veteran technology founder and engineer with over three decades of product and systems experience, currently based in California and transitioning to self-employed work as a bike mechanic. He co-founded Looker and served as its CTO, led the Malloy redesign of SQL at Google and Meta, and has repeatedly built ambitious developer-facing projects and companies since the early web era. Lloyd combines deep systems and language design expertise—dating back to work on dBASE, Netscape, and early application servers—with hands-on product leadership that scaled to a $2.6B acquisition. He has a knack for turning concise ideas into impactful products, and his career blends startup scrappiness, open-source language design, and enterprise-scale engineering. An unexpected throughline is his shift from high-scale data tooling to practical, local work like bike mechanics, reflecting a pragmatic, maker-oriented mindset.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (50)
visual-studio-code-extension10
datalog10
data-modeling10
data-management10
sql10
query-language10
database-management10
data-visualization10
embedded-database10
querying10
database10
mysql9
postgresql9
oltp9
analytics9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
looker/name_game
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:91 pushes, 26 branches, 1 comment in 10 months
looker/imdb
Jul 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:85 commits, 38 pushes, 673 branches in 5 years 1 month
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