Yusuf Simonson
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYusuf Simonson is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems and teams, currently based in Raleigh and working at Google. He spent over five years leading engineering at The Muse and has held senior technical roles at Waymo, Pachyderm, and Docker, blending hands-on backend development with people leadership. Skilled in Rust, Python, and Go, his open-source contributions span well-known projects like Tornado and Cap'n Proto for Rust, and deep systems work on graph and data-versioning projects such as indradb and Pachyderm. He focuses on resilient core logic and database/schema refactors, with a track record of improving protocol handling, validation, and codegen robustness. Now consulting while traveling, he helps companies scale their engineering orgs and products, bringing both executive experience and low-level systems craftsmanship. An uncommon detail: he pairs high-level architecture work with regular contributions to critical open-source libraries, demonstrating ongoing commitment to production-grade tooling and maintainability.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer science, B.S., Computer science at North Carolina State UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Urdu
Github Skills (23)
asynchronous10
javascript10
postgresql10
python10
capnproto10
proto10
code-generation10
go10
nodejs10
rust10
phantomjs10
grpc10
server-side10
plugin9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
indradb/indradb
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
A graph database written in rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 44 reviews, 1401 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yusuf's commits primarily focus on refactoring the codebase to remove native properties and migrate to a metadata interface. They modified multiple files, focusing on database interaction and data storage, which involved changes to database queries. These changes also involved refactoring the database layer to align with the new metadata interface, including both code and database schema modifications.
rustgraph-processingdatabasegraphgraph-database
pachyderm/pachyderm
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 1896 commits, 436 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Yusuf primarily contributed to the core functionality of the project, specifically the implementation of new Protobufs for configuration version 2 and the creation of a cluster ID endpoint. Their work involved modifications to existing code, including the creation of various helper functions and methods, and the refactoring of code related to setting and getting information about a Pachyderm cluster. The user also focused on ensuring correct port handling, improving the code by adding multiple validations levels.
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