Trevor Clinkenbeard
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTrevor Clinkenbeard is a software engineer specializing in distributed databases, with a focused career on FoundationDB engineering at Snowflake and now as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. Over six years of professional experience (and eight years working on FoundationDB-related projects) has given him deep familiarity with core storage internals, backend APIs, and maintainable code practices. He has contributed to the well-known open-source FoundationDB project, driving cross-cutting refactors and test work that improved code quality and portability. Trevor combines production-focused engineering with a history of performance and scalability work from internships at Bloomberg and SAP, including distributed job queues and scheduling research presented at SIGMOD. Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings a mix of pragmatic systems engineering and attention to long-term maintainability that helps large-scale transactional systems stay robust.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Iowa City West High SchoolBMATH Computer Science, BMATH Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (5)
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
refactor10
testing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apple/foundationdb
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:663 reviews, 1610 commits, 626 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Trevor's commits primarily focused on refactoring the codebase to use the `fmt` library in place of the deprecated `%ld` format specifier, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability. The user made changes across multiple files, including those related to Blob Manager, Native API, and CLI, indicating familiarity with core aspects of the FoundationDB project and its codebase structure. The user also contributed to the implementation of tests related to tagging within this repository.
bigtabletransactionaldistributed-databasefoundationdbdatabase
sfc-gh-tclinkenbeard/foundationdb
May 2020 - Sep 2023
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 870 pushes in 3 years 4 months
transactionalfoundationdbdatabasekey-value-storekey-value
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