Summary
Ty Rocca is a Senior Engineering Manager at Klaviyo with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver reliable, high-throughput data platforms. He oversees Core Data teams powering Events, Profiles, Catalogs & Coupons, Custom Objects, and Subscriptions & Consent, and previously scaled Klaviyo’s catalog system to handle over a billion read/write operations per day with zero outages across five Black Friday/Cyber Monday events. A former first employee at Quorum Analytics, Ty combines startup grit with product-minded engineering leadership, growing teams, defining API standards, and serving repeatedly as incident commander. He’s hands-on in distributed systems and backend engineering (Django, Python, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes) and enjoys coaching engineers to solve complex scaling and reliability problems. Outside of work he’s an avid cyclist, swimmer, and skier who amusingly likens assembling IKEA furniture to system design.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
AB Computer Science, AB Computer Science at Harvard University