Tyler Neely
Principal Engineer at Snowflake
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolTyler Neely is a Principal Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience designing and building correctness- and performance-critical stateful distributed systems. He combines deep expertise across consistency, latency-throughput tradeoffs, and storage price-performance to deliver systems that stay reliable in production and keep on-call teams sleeping. A prolific Rust practitioner and creator of the sled embedded database, Tyler has contributed to well-known open-source tooling—improving flamegraph generation for Rust profiling and helping maintain clients and wrappers for RocksDB and NATS. His background spans hands-on roles from SRE and distributed systems engineering to principal-level database and performance work at companies like Pinecone and Snowflake. He’s equally comfortable architecting fault-injection tests and low-level DWARF/symbol handling as he is leading design for cloud-native event gateways and JetStream support. Tyler’s uncommon combination of production hardening, performance tooling, and Rust-native database development makes him a go-to problem solver for high-scale stateful services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Haddonfield Memorial High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Economics at Rutgers University
rust, erlang, haskell
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
jetstream10
testing10
rocksdb10
distributed-systems10
data-serialization10
etcd10
crdt10
data-structure10
serialization10
event-driven10
go10
performance-analysis10
database-design10
profiling10
data-structures10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
rust-rocksdb/rust-rocksdb
Nov 2014 - Nov 2018
rust wrapper for rocksdb
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:295 commits, 114 PRs, 197 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Tyler's contributions primarily involve the development of a Rust wrapper for RocksDB. The commits demonstrate the creation of core functionality, including the implementation of open, put, get, and delete operations. Furthermore, the user's work includes defining essential data structures and adding initial support for features like merge operators, showcasing a focus on building the fundamental building blocks for interacting with the RocksDB database.
rocksdbrustrust-bindingsdatabaserust-wrapper
nats-io/nats.rs
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
Rust client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 14 reviews, 541 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily focused on improving the robustness of the `nats-io/nats.rs` Rust client. Their contributions involved implementing better error handling by switching to `eprintln!` for error messages and making `double_ack` functionality more reliable. Additionally, the user worked on general code quality improvements, such as applying more aggressive clippy lints, removing unnecessary clones, and streamlining code for efficiency. They also made efforts to add JetStream support, adding structs and methods related to it.
natsmessaging-libraryrustmessaging-systemrust-client
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