Richard Artoul
Co-Founder at WarpStream
Millbrae, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Artoul is a Co-Founder and seasoned distributed systems engineer with 11 years of experience building observability and storage platforms at scale. He led M3DB development at Uber as Tech Lead and later drove observability-focused engineering work at Datadog, contributing to production-grade tooling like Husky. On open source he made substantive backend contributions to the widely used M3 monorepo—improving commitlog/snapshot reliability, write batching, and performance-critical encoding that reduced data loss and boosted durability. Now at WarpStream he combines hands-on database engineering with startup leadership, focusing on resilient, high-throughput storage for metrics and telemetry. Based in Millbrae, CA, he pairs a nontraditional technical path (B.S. in Pharmacology, then software engineering training) with deep operational experience in clustered deployments and data durability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Pharmacology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Pharmacology at UC Santa BarbaraComputer Science, Computer Science at MakerSquare - School of Software Engineering
English, Arabic, Hebrew
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Github Skills (22)
bootstrap10
back-end-development10
distributed-systems10
data-persistence10
go10
performance-optimization10
database-design10
fileio10
file-handling10
file-processing10
bootstra10
file-access10
concurrency10
computer-vision6
curl6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
m3db/m3
Oct 2017 - May 2019
M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:6 releases, 193 commits, 573 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the M3DB project, focused on improvements to the commitlog and snapshotting features. This involved addressing data loss issues during bootstrap, enhancing performance by optimizing the message encoding, and implementing code related to commit log rotation and file management. The user also implemented database write batching capabilities, improving write performance and data durability in clustered deployments.
distributedquerymonorepoquery-enginesidecar
warpstreamlabs/charts
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:45 reviews, 109 PRs, 94 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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