Gordon Vincent Leung

Engineering Manager at Visa | ex-DoorDash

Visa

San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)

7+ years experience

Columbia University

English

Advising Co-founder

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Overview

Based in San Francisco. I lead distributed databases at Visa. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 5. Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 697ms to 103ms. Previously at DoorDash. Most at home with consensus and Raft.

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Advice on distributed databases
People who want to build this with me
Working sessions on RocksDB
Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Speaking or podcast invitations

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Recruiters for roles outside my stack
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Skills

ElixirRaftconsensusRocksDB

AdvisingOpen to advising

closes in 3 months

Office hours for early-stage teams: distributed databases and Elixir

Topics: distributed databases, Raft, consensus
Format: Calls
Terms: Open to discuss
Capacity: A few async reviews a month
Best for: Engineers moving into leadership

7 years of distributed databases. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

San Francisco, CAconsensusrocksdbraft

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Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

closes in 3 months

Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for cross-border payouts for law firms

The idea: Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for cross-border payouts for law firms
Stage: Customer interviews
I bring: 12 years in distributed databases
Looking for: Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment: Full-time now
Location: San Francisco or remote

I bring 7 years of distributed databases (currently Visa). Ideally you've run operations in Southeast Asia. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

San Francisco, CAraftconsensusrocksdb

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Experience

Engineering Manager
Aug 2023 - Present
Visa · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Wrote the RocksDB service that now handles 83 million requests a day.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 27 minutes to under 3.
- Grew the storage team from 4 to 37 engineers.
Software Engineer
Jan 2020 - Aug 2023
DoorDash · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 4.
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 19 a week to 4.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner

2024

Built with Elixir and RocksDB. 3866 people used it last year.

Open-source RocksDB toolkit

2022

A small library for distributed databases that 886 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Columbia University
BA, Mathematics
2015 - 2019

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