Spencer Kimball
CEO at Cockroach Labs
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Kimball is a seasoned technology leader and CEO with over a decade of experience building distributed systems and developer-facing infrastructure. He co-founded and leads Cockroach Labs, the team behind the widely used CockroachDB open-source distributed SQL database, bringing practical experience in resilient, scalable storage and database design. His earlier roles include engineering at Square, CTO at Viewfinder and WeGo Systems, and nearly a decade as a Staff Software Engineer at Google where he worked on projects like the Google Servlet Engine, a Java ORM, and Colossus. Spencer blends hands-on engineering and executive leadership, repeatedly moving from low-level system design to product and company strategy. Based in New York, he pairs a Berkeley computer science background with a track record of turning complex distributed systems into production-ready products. An understated strength is his ability to steward ambitious open-source projects into sustainable commercial ventures.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (54)
database10
kubernetes10
postgresql10
cockroachdb10
go-language10
mysql10
distributed-systems10
arangodb10
proto10
rpc10
go10
sql10
golang10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spencerkimball/stargazers
Jan 2016 - Oct 2017
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Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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spencerkimball/spencerkimball.github.io
Nov 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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