Mark Lillibridge
Software Engineer at Yugabyte
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Lillibridge is a software engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in designing and debugging large-scale distributed systems, currently contributing at Yugabyte from Menlo Park. He previously served as a Staff Software Engineer at Meta, where he worked on critical infrastructure including leaderless Paxos databases, Meta’s replicated blob store for photos and videos, and high-fanout data distribution libraries scaling to 100K+ nodes. His background spans foundational research roles at HP and Compaq, where he built systems for petabyte backup deduplication, persistent-memory rack-scale computing, and reliability under power faults. Mark is known for diving into protocol correctness, emergent-system behaviors, and performance root causes while maintaining a strong culture of mentoring, rigorous code review, and on-call quality. He holds dual BS degrees from MIT and advanced degrees (MS/PhD) in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, combining deep theoretical training with pragmatic production experience. An engineer who prefers plumbing hard systems over flashy demos, he brings rare depth in both research and production-scale distributed storage.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
2 BS's, Computer science and engineering; mathematics, 2 BS's, Computer science and engineering; mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS, PhD, Computer science, MS, PhD, Computer science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
c-language10
postgresql10
testing10
rocksdb10
database-design10
test-integration10
cprogramming-language10
test-unit10
unit-test10
integration-testing10
admin9
database-administration9
databases9
database9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mdbridge/Vocola-2
Dec 2009 - Nov 2022
Contributions:602 commits, 171 pushes, 30 branches in 13 years
mdbridge/bit-bucket
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:52 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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