Spike Curtis
Principal Engineer at Coder
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolSpike Curtis is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently leading backend and DevOps work at Coder. He bridges deep academic rigor—holding a PhD in atomic and laser physics from Oxford and having led experimental quantum computing research—with hands-on systems engineering across projects at Rigetti, Tigera/Project Calico, and Palantir. A polyglot engineer comfortable in Go, C/C++, Python and Kubernetes, Spike has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Istio and Coder, improving service mesh behavior, certificate handling, graceful shutdown, and observability. He combines network protocol expertise and low-level performance tuning with a knack for clear technical writing and teaching, a skill honed tutoring undergraduates at Oriel College. Based in Abu Dhabi, he brings a rare mix of quantum research pedigree and production-grade cloud systems experience to complex distributed systems problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Atomic & Laser Physics, PhD Atomic & Laser Physics at University of OxfordB.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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Github Skills (28)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
coder/coder
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Provision remote development environments via Terraform
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1143 reviews, 54 commits, 746 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Spike's contributions primarily involved enhancing system robustness and efficiency in the context of remote development environments. They focused on ensuring graceful shutdown by making it harder to accidentally skip it, refactoring build processes, and optimizing resource utilization through the use of disk and file management techniques. The work also included the implementation of logging improvements, including the addition of structured logging, and integrating improvements for performance related to TCP connections. Additionally, the user contributed to the monitoring of network activity and other performance improvements.
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istio/istio
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 43 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Spike contributed to the Istio project by implementing and enhancing functionalities related to service mesh configuration and management. They addressed issues such as certificate handling, allowing unix domain sockets, and improving webhook integrations. The contributions involved modifying core components like Envoy proxy resources and adding support for unmarshaling LDS JSON data. Furthermore, the user's work directly supported the deployment of Istio using features such as ServiceEntry.
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