PJ Tatlow
Chief Architect at Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPJ Tatlow is a Chief Architect and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems from Provo, Utah. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles at Qualtrics and Cockroach Labs to senior technical leadership at Redo, bringing deep expertise in backend systems, DevOps, and distributed databases. Notably, his open-source contributions to CockroachDB improved the SQL proxy’s graceful shutdown and expanded its ACL tooling—work that directly reduces data-loss risk during Kubernetes upgrades. He also teaches as an adjunct professor at BYU, blending academic curiosity with practical product delivery, and holds a dual background in bioinformatics and computer science that informs pragmatic approaches to large data problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English
Github Skills (11)
databases10
go10
database-administration10
admin10
distributed-database10
sql10
database10
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
May 2022 - Jun 2022
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 4 commits, 12 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:PJ primarily focused on improving the CockroachDB SQL proxy. Their contributions include enabling a more graceful shutdown process to prevent data loss during Kubernetes upgrades. They also refactored code by moving denylist files to the acl package and extended it into an access control list to support allowlists. Additionally, they added an allowlist flag to the CLI and fixed a test flake related to parsing error handling.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
pjtatlow/geneysis
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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