Ray Jenkins
Software Engineer at Cursor
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRay Jenkins is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building fast, fault-tolerant distributed systems focused on analytics and real-time computation. Based in San Francisco, he has led engineering efforts from startup to scale—founding Streamfold (acquired by Cursor), directing engineering at Segment, and contributing core systems at Snowflake and FoundationDB. Ray specializes in low-latency stream processing, exactly-once pipelines, and operational reliability across languages and stacks (Go, JVM, C/C++, Rust) and platforms (Kafka, RocksDB, FoundationDB, AWS). He has a track record of cutting costs and latent failures—e.g., consolidating pipelines to reduce compute/network spend and eliminating persistent data loss—while building observability (OpenTelemetry) and resilient feature-flagging and routing services. An active contributor to FoundationDB on GitHub, he combines deep systems-level engineering with product-minded operational practices that scale to hundreds of billions of computations weekly.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Franklin Pierce UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (67)
segment10
golang10
go-packages10
kafka10
go10
producer10
datadog10
programming-language9
bcc9
jvm9
prometheus9
linux8
librato8
opentelemetry8
nsq8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
librato/watchconf
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
A library for watching service configuration from various sources on the JVM
Contributions:105 commits, 12 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years 2 months
jvm
rjenkins/conservator
May 2015 - Feb 2016
C++ Zookeeper client library inspired by Apache Curator
Contributions:48 commits, 8 PRs, 45 pushes in 8 months
apache-curatorcppzookeeper
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