Philip Wernersbach
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Ladder
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Wernersbach is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and databases. He has deep, hands-on expertise across storage and streaming infrastructure—ZippyDB, LogDevice, Wormhole, Presto and cache systems—alongside production experience in Linux kernel environments and embedded real-time systems. Comfortable in many languages (Go, C/C++, Rust, Java, Python, Nim) he moves between low-level performance work and high-level data pipeline design, most recently driving Big Data ingestion at Chronosphere and platform reliability at Ladder. Philip pairs individual technical ownership with team mentorship, having scoped and led feature work on mission-critical services at Facebook. An unusual mix of embedded real-time Linux experience and large distributed systems work gives him insight into both hardware-adjacent constraints and cloud-scale reliability.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bellarmine UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Cum Laude at Northern Kentucky University
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Github Skills (131)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
philip-wernersbach/nim-qt5_qtsql
Apr 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
philip-wernersbach/microasynchttpserver
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
A thin asynchronous HTTP server library for Nim, API compatible with Nim's built-in asynchttpserver.
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 9 commits in 11 months
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