Gavin Perkins

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Senior Engineering Manager at Okta | ex-Mastercard

Okta
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
15+ years experience
Harvard University
English
AdvisingOpen to work
Messaging unavailable

Overview

18 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Okta, where I lead the real-time team. Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion. Shipped 11 launches on the real-time team without a rollback. Jazz piano, badly.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on real-time systems
  • Roles in real-time systems
  • Second opinions on Erlang/OTP decisions
Please don't message about
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
GoWebSocketsIcebergErlang/OTPlow-latency systemsRedis
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for career switchers into engineering: real-time systems and Iceberg

Topics
real-time systems, low-latency systems, Erlang/OTP
Format
Calls
Terms
Equity
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

18 years of real-time systems. One call a month or async reviews.

Boston, MAiceberglow-latency systemserlang/otp
Open
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Lead Software Engineer roles in robotics - Boston or remote

Target roles
Lead Software Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
AI infrastructure, Developer tools
Work mode
Remote
Available
Immediately
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the MA
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead real-time systems work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

18 years in real-time systems. Strongest at Go and Redis. Available from next month.

Boston, MAredisicebergerlang/otp
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    May 2022 - Present
    Okta · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 43% in two quarters.
    • Led the migration of 75 services to Erlang/OTP.
    • Wrote the low-latency systems service that now handles 10 million requests a day.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Feb 2019 - May 2022
    Mastercard · 3 yr 3 mo · Contract · Boston, MA
    • Wrote the low-latency systems service that now handles 59 million requests a day.
  3. Software Engineer
    Apr 2016 - Feb 2019
    HubSpot · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Shipped 8 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Aug 2014 - Apr 2016
    Morgan Stanley · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Apr 2012 - Aug 2014
    BlackRock · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 27 a week to 4.

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Education

  1. Harvard University
    AB, Information Technology
    2003 - 2007

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