Ross Guarino
Senior Software Engineer at Discord
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Guarino is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building production-grade platforms that shrink deployment cycles from months to minutes and reliably operate planet-scale systems. He has supported tier-1 reliability for Google’s Firestore/Datastore and helped run Dropbox’s global object storage, and he founded Cloudflare’s internal developer platform organization to deliver self-service deployments, observability, storage, service mesh and disaster recovery tooling. Ross excels at translating executive and product priorities into resilient, developer-friendly infrastructure and building teams and training programs that scale organizational impact. He now brings that platform expertise to Discord’s Platform-as-a-Service efforts while maintaining a practical, security-minded approach honed at Google. An instrument-rated pilot, he applies aviation-style systems thinking to complex distributed systems, favoring solutions that are both auditable and immediately usable by new engineers. Located in San Francisco, he combines deep SRE pedigree with hands-on platform leadership to accelerate developer velocity at scale.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (136)
controller10
ebpf10
bpf10
security10
k8s10
monitoring10
kubernetes-networking10
kubernetes10
observability10
kernel10
apt10
cni10
networking10
nginx10
git-repo9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rlguarino/dotfiles
Jun 2013 - Aug 2016
Contributions:62 commits, 13 pushes in 3 years 2 months
dotfilespersonalizedconfiguration-fileszsh
rlguarino/chocolatey-dep
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
Chocolately package for Dep https://github.com/golang/dep
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
golangdep
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