Roko K
Solutions Engineer at turbopuffer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoko K is a seasoned solutions engineer with 15 years of experience building and scaling technical go-to-market organizations for data and distributed systems companies from pre-revenue to growth. Based in San Francisco, he’s led field engineering, customer success, and post-sales teams at Redpanda and Modular, where he helped shape GTM strategy, achieved high POC win rates, and drove exceptional NRR. Hands-on throughout his career, Roko has deep expertise in architecting global deployments, performance troubleshooting, and operationalizing streaming and distributed databases—he’s also contributed to the Redpanda open-source project improving configs, testing, and container integrations. At turbopuffer he now applies that blend of product, customer, and engineering experience to serverless vector and full-text search on object storage, emphasizing cost and scalability. His background in computational and applied mathematics underpins a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to solving complex infrastructure problems.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computational and Applied Mathematics Algorithms and Discrete Math, BS Computational and Applied Mathematics Algorithms and Discrete Math at University of Washington
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
kafka10
container10
docker10
go10
containerization10
streaming10
testing10
devops9
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
cpp8
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 23 commits, 27 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Roko primarily focused on configuration and testing related to the Redpanda streaming platform. Their contributions include altering default configuration settings, fixing tests to reflect these changes, and updating API documentation paths. They also made changes to container configurations, limiting resources, and fixing issues related to containerized environments. Further contributions involved altering quota byte rates and Grafana integration.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
redpanda-data/openmessaging-benchmark
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:6 reviews, 37 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
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