Molly Struve
Staff Site Reliability Engineer - CORE at Netflix
Ocala, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMolly Struve is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Netflix with 14 years of experience building reliable, high-scale systems from her MIT aerospace engineering roots. She’s led engineering and SRE teams at Forem and Kenna Security, driving migrations (Algolia→Elasticsearch, Memcache→Redis), observability consolidations, and performance optimizations that enabled massive data and job throughput growth. At Forem she scaled distributed teams and introduced async-first collaboration and engineering leveling while still contributing hands-on backend and database improvements—evidenced by performance-focused work on the open-source Forem codebase. Her career blends deep systems engineering (Elasticsearch tuning, background job platforms, caching strategies) with people-first leadership and operational rigor. Based in Ocala, Florida, she’s known for turning complex infrastructure challenges into measurable reliability wins and for mentoring engineers new to SRE practices. An uncommon detail: she began in aerospace and has translated that discipline into pragmatic, data-driven reliability engineering at internet scale.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Crystal Lake South High SchoolBachelors of Science, Aerospace Engineering w/Information Technology, Bachelors of Science, Aerospace Engineering w/Information Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (17)
caching10
postgresql10
rails10
indexing10
ruby10
indexer10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
redis9
paypal9
simpleform6
defaults6
activemerchant6
activeadmin6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:662 reviews, 738 commits, 1875 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Molly made multiple contributions to the back-end of the Forem application, including improvements to caching mechanisms, database indexing, and database interactions. Their work encompassed enhancements to existing functionality, such as the inclusion of article IDs in cache keys, as well as refactoring and optimizing database queries. They also added indexing on various database columns, showing a focus on performance and efficiency.
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rahuldkjain/forem
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
For empowering community 🌱
Contributions:42 commits in 15 days
reacttypescriptempowering
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