Garrett Weber

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Senior Engineering Manager at Delta Labs · rate limiting, REST

Delta Labs
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
Ohio State University
English
AdvisingOpen to work
Messaging unavailable

Overview

I lead API platforms at Delta Labs in New York. Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Booking Holdings and Chewy. Most at home with rate limiting and OpenAPI. Gardening and composting evangelist.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in API platforms
  • Advice on API platforms
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on OpenAPI
Please don't message about
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
PostgreSQLrate limitingOpenAPIElixirREST
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for new engineering managers: API platforms and Elixir

Topics
API platforms, OpenAPI, rate limiting
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Paid
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

11 years of API platforms. One call a month or async reviews.

New York, NYopenapirestrate limiting
Open
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Backend Engineer in supply chain, New York or hybrid

Target roles
Backend Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Healthtech, Developer tools
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the NY
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series A) where API platforms is core to the product.
Not interested in
Night shifts

11 years in API platforms. Strongest at PostgreSQL and rate limiting. Can start in about six weeks.

New York, NY · remote OKopenapirestelixir
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Delta Labs · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 5.
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 39% in two quarters.
    • Led the migration of 24 services to Elixir.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
    Booking Holdings · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 30 a week to 2.
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 27% in two quarters.
  3. Backend Engineer
    May 2019 - Nov 2022
    Chewy · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 466ms to 75ms.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2015 - May 2019
    Snowflake · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. Ohio State University
    BA, Computer Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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