Summary
Pato Lankenau is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in large-scale distributed systems, currently at Jane Street after a lengthy tenure at Apple. He has architected and implemented exabyte-scale storage and fault-tolerant databases, led an international engineering team, and now focuses on systems written in Rust for AI/ML infrastructure. His hands-on background spans consensus (Raft), on-disk persistence, networking, and CI/CD, plus formal verification (TLA+) from earlier work鈥攁n uncommon mix of pragmatic systems engineering and formal methods. Comfortable moving between individual contributor and managerial roles, he combines deep low-level technical ownership with experience shipping production services at massive scale. Based in London, he brings both startup founding experience and big-tech rigor to complex distributed problems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
IB Diploma, IB Diploma at Klein Oak High School
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
American School of Warsaw
American International School of Vienna
English, German, Spanish, French