Summary
Robinson Mann is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, currently at Netflix after leading data and observability efforts for AWS KMS. He drove multi-region, mission-critical improvements—cutting log propagation from hours to minutes, slashing P99 control plane latency by 75%, halving datastore writes, and enabling doubled frontend capacity without architecture changes. Robinson pioneered a managed Online Event Processing framework and an OLAP replica in PostgreSQL that turned multi-hour queries into minutes and unlocked safe read access to KMS’s primary datastore. He blends hands-on systems design, cross-team coordination, and operational ownership, having led a six-person team through planning, oncall, and launches. Based in New York, he brings deep expertise in streaming architectures, event-driven control planes, and measurable performance engineering at cloud scale.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics - Co-operative Program, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics - Co-operative Program, Computer Science at University of Waterloo