RussellĀ Sears
System Engineer at Reve
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRussell Sears is a systems engineer and PhD-level researcher with 22 years of experience building production storage and analytics platforms and shipping foundational low-level infrastructure. His career spans influential roles at Apple, Pure Storage, Microsoft, and startups, where he helped architect distributed filesystems, custom SSD software, and serverless Postgres offerings. He contributes to top-tier research communities and to open-source projects such as FoundationDB, where his network testing and latency instrumentation work improved performance analysis. Russell advises hardware-software co-design efforts to provide memory safety for unmodified C programs and routinely blends academic rigor with product-focused engineering. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is comfortable moving between hardware, compilers, and large-scale distributed software, and has a track record of turning research ideas (like Stasis and bLSM) into widely deployed systems.
22 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (16)
foundationdb10
performance-tuning10
performance-monitor10
performance-analysis10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitoring10
cprogramming-language10
c-language10
performance-measurement10
networking9
distributed-systems9
testing8
concurrency8
linux6
fsync6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apple/foundationdb
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end & Performance Engineer
Back-end & Performance EngineerContributions:154 reviews, 202 commits, 107 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Russell made significant contributions to the `foundationdb` project's network testing tools. They focused on enhancing the `networktestclient` by adding tuning knobs to measure latency directly. These changes involved modifications to C++ code, specifically in `fdbserver/networktest.actor.cpp` and `flow/Knobs.cpp`, to incorporate latency statistics and reporting, ultimately improving the performance analysis of the network component. Several commits involved minor code cleanup, improving the readability and maintainability of existing code.
foundationdbkey-value-storetransactionaldistributed-database
sears/YCSB
May 2021 - Nov 2021
Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark
Contributions:12 reviews, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 5 months
benchmarkyahookubernetesserving
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