Christine Arnold

Senior Software Engineer, Glade Grid - consensus · C++ · Rust

Glade Grid

New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)

9+ years experience

Columbia University

English

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Overview

I work on distributed databases at Glade Grid in New York. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 30 a week to 1. Most at home with Raft and C++. Learning woodworking.

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Skills

consensusC++performance engineeringRocksDBRustRaft

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Sep 2025 - Present
Glade Grid · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Shipped 13 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 40 a week to 1.
Software Engineer
Jan 2023 - Sep 2025
JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Shipped 17 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
- Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 800ms to 89ms.
Software Engineer
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Wells Fargo · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 6.
Software Engineer
Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
Uber · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Shipped 22 launches on the storage team without a rollback.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app

2024

Built with Rust and Raft. 494 people used it last year.

Open-source RocksDB toolkit

2023

A small library for distributed databases that 147 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Columbia University
BA, Electrical Engineering
2013 - 2017

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