Robert Escriva
Member Of Technical Staff at Chroma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Escriva is a systems-focused software engineer and Cornell PhD with 18 years of experience building scalable storage and metadata systems. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Chroma, he has driven reliability and architecture work on petabyte-scale databases at Dropbox and implemented RocksDB and parquet-backed caching solutions for Fast Fusion at Lacework. An active open-source contributor, he helped develop HyperDex, enhancing durable operations, JSON handling, and performance around indexing and GC. Known for reducing on-call incidents through pragmatic engineering and for favoring direct contact via GitHub or in person, he blends deep research training with hands-on systems craftsmanship.
18 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Cornell UniversityRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (15)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
leveldb9
data-structures8
data-structure8
concurrency8
indexing8
file-access7
system-design7
performance-optimization7
fileio7
file-handling7
file-processing7
testing6
json5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rescrv/HyperDex
Apr 2011 - Jun 2025
HyperDex is a scalable, searchable key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2016 commits, 6 PRs, 22 pushes in 14 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert was involved in the development and maintenance of the HyperDex key-value store's back-end functionality. The contributions include implementing critical features like durable operations, handling JSON document types, and addressing potential performance issues, such as those arising during indexing and garbage collection. The user also focused on improving the reliability and efficiency of data storage and retrieval, including the creation of enhancements to the testing framework. Their work also encompasses refactoring and improving the code.
scalabledatabasekey-value-storekey-valuehyperdex
rescrv/rustypaxos
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 1 branch in 10 months
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