Troy Karraker
Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Databases
Greater Seattle Area United States
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RockstarTroy Karraker is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on databases with a decade-plus track record building and operating large-scale infrastructure across companies like GitHub, Box, and GoDaddy. He combines deep MySQL and database infrastructure expertise with hands-on SRE practices to keep high-traffic systems reliable and performant. As a serial founder he’s currently building two pre-seed startups—Tyrvar (AI-assisted compliance automation) and Quazl (compliance-first fintech for family finance)—bringing product-led engineering to security and payments. His background spans ops, automation, and consulting, where he’s delivered cloud migrations, CI/CD, and containerization at scale while coaching teams in agile practices. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs operator rigor with entrepreneurial grit, often turning complex compliance and DB challenges into automated, auditable workflows. An uncommon detail: he moves fluidly between deep operational runbooks and early-stage product MVPs, bridging the gap from day-to-day reliability to market-facing features.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (29)
database-access10
mariadb10
mysql10
migration10
schema-migrations10
migration-tool10
proxysql6
clustering5
replication5
docker4
sql3
database3
high-availability3
golang3
vitess3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
github/gh-ost
Feb 2022 - Jan 2024
GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL
Contributions:1 review, 1 issue in 1 year 10 months
mysqldatabase-accessschema-migrationsmigrationmigration-schema
github/vitess-gh
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
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