Tammy Bailey
Senior Engineering Manager at Fastly
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTammy Bailey is a Senior Engineering Manager with a decade of experience leading high-impact backend and storage engineering teams, currently at Fastly in Seattle. She combines deep systems and C++ expertise—evidenced by significant contributions to WiredTiger and MongoDB’s storage engine—with a proven track record of scaling teams and mentoring managers at companies like ngrok and MongoDB. Tammy has shipped core database features and performance improvements (including tiered storage and transaction/history-store work) and improved tooling and benchmarks, showing she pairs hands-on engineering with product-grade reliability. She’s comfortable operating across operational, customer-facing, and cross-functional domains, from multi-cloud deployments to dashboard UX improvements. A founder-level operator in team development, she also co-founded MongoDB’s Australian chapter of MDBWomen, reflecting a sustained commitment to inclusion and talent growth. Collected academic training in computer science and mathematics underpins her analytic approach to complex distributed systems and storage challenges.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Duke UniversityMaster’s Degree Mathematics, Master’s Degree Mathematics at Syracuse University
English
Github Skills (20)
transaction10
c-language10
wiredtiger10
configuration-management10
databases10
c1110
c1710
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
testing9
gcp9
nosql8
benchmark7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wiredtiger/wiredtiger
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
WiredTiger's source tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:396 reviews, 84 commits, 198 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tammy contributed to the WiredTiger database project by modifying configuration options, adding new statistics for transaction operations, and improving the rollback to stable functionality. The user's work involved code changes in the configuration files, statistics gathering, and core database logic related to transactions and history stores. The user also made changes to test scripts and documentation, demonstrating involvement in testing and software quality assurance.
rustwiredtiger
mongodb/mongo
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tammy primarily focused on integrating and modifying the WiredTiger storage engine, specifically concerning tiered storage configurations. They worked on adding table-level tiered shared configuration options and implementing the list_objects() function for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The contributions also include replacing mutexes with shared_mutex for dynamic tables within the workgen benchmark, and the addition of the -? option to the wt commands. Additional commits include fixing errors in handling messages on MacOS and other general utilities fixes.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
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