Tait Clarridge
Senior Staff Developer at Disco
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTait Clarridge is a Senior Staff Developer based in Old Toronto with 12 years of experience building low-latency, distributed systems and high-throughput data processing services, primarily in Go. He brings systems engineering roots to backend architecture, having progressed from SysAdmin roles into leadership positions across ad tech and SaaS companies like Rubicon, Chatkit, Lightspeed, and Disco. Tait contributes to notable open-source tooling—most prominently enhancing the influxdata/telegraf Aerospike plugin to reliably gather and filter metrics—demonstrating attention to production observability and interoperability. Colleagues rely on him to tame complexity: he designs efficient data pipelines, refactors to avoid cross-plugin conflicts, and implements pragmatic filters that keep metric streams useful. Always pushing to learn and share, he pairs deep hands-on development with a collaborative mindset that improves both code and operational outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Upper Canada College
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Github Skills (7)
golang10
monitoring10
aerospike10
go10
influxdb10
metric10
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/telegraf
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 33 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tait contributed significantly to the `aerospike` plugin, adding support for querying and integrating with Aerospike servers. Their work included implementing the necessary logic to gather metrics from Aerospike, including statistics and namespace information. They refactored the tag names in aerospike, to avoid conflicts with other plugins. The user also implemented filters to pass or drop metrics for outputs, with tag support.
agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf
chango/inferno
Sep 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 15 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
scheduling-frameworkschedulingrulerule-basedmap-reduce
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