Potato
Senior Software Engineer Systems Engineer at It's a secret because I value privacy
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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RockstarPotato is a seasoned Senior Software and Systems Engineer with two decades of full-stack experience and deep familiarity with Linux and FOSS, currently focused on Vue.js and Node.js and exploring Rust. They combine hands-on front-end tooling (Vue ecosystem since 2016) with robust back-end Node.js expertise and proven work on distributed systems like Apache IoTDB where they refactored core cluster logic. Past roles span building PWAs and device fleets at scale, embedded C/C++/Rust development for MCUs/SOCs, and AR systems for live events, reflecting a blend of web, embedded, and real-time expertise. A mentor and organizer of a cybersecurity study group, they bring practical skills in reverse engineering and exploit mitigation alongside product delivery. Known for turning legacy apps into modern, testable systems, they favor pragmatic refactors that improve efficiency and observability across complex stacks.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (7)
data-storage10
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
concurrency9
performance-optimization9
distributed-systems8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/iotdb
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Apache IoTDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1986 reviews, 112 commits, 1455 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Potato primarily contributed to the refactoring of the existing codebase, including renaming methods and abstracting insert plans. The contributions also include debugging and enhancing the query operations in the cluster module. The user fixed bugs and refactored the code to improve efficiency. They also worked on handling the removal of data regions and the overall architecture of the project.
tdenginenosqlapachebig-datadatabase
OneSizeFitsQuorum/ratis
May 2022 - Jan 2025
Open source Java implementation for Raft consensus protocol.
Contributions:60 pushes, 73 branches in 2 years 8 months
raft-consensusconsensus-protocolconsensuspaxosjava-source
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