Austin Roberts

Senior Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters · Distributed databases · Raft, Rust

Thomson Reuters

Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)

9+ years experience

University of Alberta

English

Open to work

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Overview

I've spent 9 years on distributed databases - first at Microsoft, now at Thomson Reuters. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 17 a week to 1. Before that: Lululemon and Air Canada. Most at home with Rust and performance engineering. Big believer in written communication.

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Roles in distributed databases
Second opinions on Rust decisions

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Crypto token projects
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Skills

RaftRustperformance engineeringC++consensus

Open to workLooking for a role

closes in 3 months

Staff Software Engineer roles in climate tech - Toronto or remote

Target roles: Staff Software Engineer
Level: Staff / Principal
Industries: Fintech, Climate tech
Work mode: Remote
Available: 90 days notice
Work authorization: Authorized to work in the ON
What I'm looking for: A team that ships weekly and owns storage end to end.
Not interested in: Pure people management

9 years in distributed databases. Strongest at Raft and performance engineering. Available from next month.

Toronto, ON · remote OKrustc++performance engineering

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Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Apr 2025 - Present
Thomson Reuters · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Reduced cloud spend on storage by 20% in two quarters.
- Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 707ms to 88ms.
- Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
Software Engineer
Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
Lululemon · 3 yr · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Reduced cloud spend on storage by 42% in two quarters.
Software Engineer
Jun 2019 - Apr 2022
Air Canada · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Moved 89% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Software Engineer
Oct 2017 - May 2019
Microsoft · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 6.

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Education

University of Alberta
BSc, Electrical Engineering
2012 - 2016

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