Scott Fritchie
Sr Engineer II at CrowdStrike
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Fritchie is a seasoned Sr Engineer II based in Minneapolis with 15+ years building and hardening distributed systems, storage engines, and UNIX-native software. He has deep practical experience across back-end systems, reliability engineering, and test automation—contributing significant fixes and robustness improvements to well-known projects like Riak, Bitcask, and CorfuDB. Scott blends low-level systems work (runtime and socket tuning, memory-leak fixes) with high-level distributed concerns (2PC, cluster and ring readiness tooling), and often strengthens projects by improving their test suites and diagnostics. He has a track record of quietly driving resilience and observability improvements that prevent subtle production failures, and maintains a complete resume and technical notes publicly at snookles.com.
15 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics, B.A., Mathematics at St. Olaf College
Stackoverflow
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erlang
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Github Skills (70)
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python10
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databases10
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junit10
file-processing10
stream-processing10
pony10
actor-model10
concurrency10
nosql10
leveldb10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
basho/bitcask
Nov 2010 - Sep 2015
because you need another a key/value storage engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:157 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a key-value storage engine. Their work involved fixing bugs, particularly addressing errors related to merges and data entry issues. They extended test timeouts and implemented test cases for features like truncated data files and merge operations. The user also focused on improving the system's reliability by detecting and reporting bad data file entries and adding code to handle potential file descriptor leaks.
golangdatabasecachestorageneed
basho/basho_bench
Mar 2011 - Feb 2016
A load-generation and testing tool for basically whatever you can write a returning Erlang function for.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:140 commits, 21 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development of the `basho_bench` tool by adding new features and improving existing functionality. Their work included implementing a 'stat' operation to test Riak's "/stats" endpoint, modifying the default behavior of the Riak Protocol Buffers (PB) driver, and adding support for custom unit reporting in driver plugins. These modifications involved changes to core Erlang code, adding new HTTP request functionality, and modifying data structures.
testingerlangelixir
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