Ava King

Director of Engineering at Juniper Works · Distributed databases · Raft, performance engineering

Juniper Works

Melbourne, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)

10+ years experience

Melbourne Business School

English

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Based in Melbourne. I lead distributed databases at Juniper Works. Wrote the Raft service that now handles 85 million requests a day. Most at home with Raft and OpenAPI.

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RaftRocksDBperformance engineeringconsensusOpenAPI

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9 mobile engineer roles open on the storage team in Melbourne

Role: Mobile engineer
Level: Mid
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Hybrid
Compensation: $121k-$171k
Team: Storage, 15 people
Start: Within a month
Must have: Production experience with consensus Production experience with Raft Ownership of something end to end
Process: 3 conversations, no take-home

Comp S$146k-S$191k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Melbourne, Australia · remote OKperformance engineeringconsensusrocksdb

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Experience

Director of Engineering
Jan 2026 - Present
Juniper Works · 9 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
- Shipped 8 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
- Reduced cloud spend on storage by 36% in two quarters.
Staff Software Engineer
Sep 2024 - Jan 2026
PwC · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
- Reduced cloud spend on storage by 44% in two quarters.
Principal Engineer
Oct 2021 - Sep 2024
Foxconn · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
- Led or co-led 14 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
- Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
Engineering Manager
Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
ANZ · 1 yr 9 mo · Contract · Melbourne, Australia
- Wrote the Raft service that now handles 63 million requests a day.
Senior Software Engineer
Aug 2016 - Jan 2020
Naver · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
- Wrote the OpenAPI service that now handles 37 million requests a day.
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 36 a week to 4.

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Education

Melbourne Business School
MBA, Business Administration
2012 - 2014
Nanyang Technological University
BEng, Computer Engineering
2007 - 2011

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