Eleanor Hale

Overview

Based in Columbus. I lead distributed databases at Glade Logistics. Led the migration of 78 services to consensus. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 38 a week to 1. Most at home with C++ and RocksDB. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

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Experience

1. CTO

   Sep 2025 - Present
   Glade Logistics · 1 yr 1 mo · Contract · Columbus, OH
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 5.
   • Grew the storage team from 6 to 39 engineers.
   • Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely.
2. Director of Engineering

   Jul 2024 - Sep 2025
   Spotify · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 660ms to 149ms.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 5.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Aug 2022 - Jul 2024
   PwC · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 42% in two quarters.
4. Staff Software Engineer

   Aug 2019 - Jun 2022
   Morgan Stanley · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
   • Wrote the C++ service that now handles 10 million requests a day.
   • Moved 74% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2016 - Aug 2019
   Snowflake · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 13 a week to 3.
   • Grew the storage team from 6 to 32 engineers.

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Education

1. Harvard Business School

   MBA, Business Administration
   2002 - 2004
2. University of Florida

   BS, Electrical Engineering
   1994 - 1998