Quinn Kokich
Software Engineer Technical Lead at Wētā FX
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolQuinn Kokich is a Software Engineer Technical Lead based in Wellington with 11 years of experience building resilient storage and systems software, primarily at Wētā FX. He designs and maintains large-scale tooling that aggregates monitoring and maintenance data from thousands of machines, with a strong focus on NFS and storage appliances. Quinn blends hands-on backend development—evidenced by contributions extending the popular Erlang logging framework lager—with mentoring junior engineers and improving team reliability. Comfortable in both research-like problem solving and production engineering, he repeatedly steps into leadership roles while still shipping code. His background in computer science and long tenure at a VFX engineering environment give him a pragmatic approach to complex infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of OtagoBachelor of Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology at Southern Institute of Technology
Github Skills (4)
testing10
erlang10
logging10
otp10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
erlang-lager/lager
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
A logging framework for Erlang/OTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Quinn focused on extending the functionality of the Erlang logging framework. They implemented function transforms, allowing functions to return values for metadata, and added tests for the new functionality. They also addressed issues related to function evaluation and made updates to the README file. Further modifications ensured that function transforms could be resolved on both emit and log events.
gleamerlangloggererlang-otplogging
walrusVision/poolboy
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
A hunky Erlang worker pool factory
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
gleamworker-poolerlangazerothcorefactory
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