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Brian Tsai

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Staff Software Engineer at Tallis Networks | ex-Electronic Arts

Works at
Tallis Networks
Location
Vancouver, BC · PT (UTC-8)
Experience
13+ years experience
Education
University of Toronto
Languages
English
Open to work
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Overview

I've spent 15 years on distributed databases - first at Ubisoft, now at Tallis Networks. Led the migration of 27 services to performance engineering. Before that: Electronic Arts and CIBC. Amateur photographer; mostly street and food.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in distributed databases
  • Working sessions on Rust
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Crypto token projects

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
Raftperformance engineeringconsensusC++RocksDBRust
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Lead Software Engineer roles in mobility - Vancouver or remote

Target roles
Lead Software Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Developer tools, Logistics
Work mode
Remote
Available
Immediately
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the BC
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead distributed databases work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Crypto

15 years in distributed databases. Strongest at RocksDB and Raft. Available from next month.

Vancouver, BCconsensusrocksdbperformance engineering
Open

Experience

  1. Staff Software Engineer
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Tallis Networks · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Wrote the C++ service that now handles 66 million requests a day.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 38 a week to 4.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Sep 2023
    Electronic Arts · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 83 million requests a day.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 16 a week to 4.
  3. Engineering Manager
    May 2017 - Jul 2020
    CIBC · 3 yr 2 mo · Contract · Vancouver, BC
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 19 a week to 2.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 2.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    May 2015 - Jan 2017
    OpenText · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Grew the storage team from 5 to 20 engineers.
  5. Software Engineer
    Aug 2013 - May 2015
    Ubisoft · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Moved 83% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 14 a week to 1.

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Education

  1. University of Toronto
    BASc, Information Technology
    2006 - 2010

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