Charlie Lee

Senior Software Engineer, Glade Mobility - RocksDB · performance engineering · Rust

Glade Mobility

Auckland, New Zealand · NZST (UTC+12)

6+ years experience

University of Hong Kong

English

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Overview

Senior Software Engineer at Glade Mobility, focused on distributed databases. Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 51 million requests a day. Moved 67% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Previously at SEEK. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

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Questions about distributed databases
Second opinions on Rust decisions

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C++RocksDBconsensusperformance engineeringRaftRust

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Feb 2024 - Present
Glade Mobility · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 2.
- Moved 89% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 308ms to 165ms.
Software Engineer
Jan 2021 - Oct 2023
SEEK · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
- Moved 75% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

University of Hong Kong
BSc, Computer Science
2015 - 2019

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