Grant Meyer

Overview

13 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Kestrel Mobility, where I lead the search team. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 6. Shipped 16 launches on the search team without a rollback. Before that: Microsoft and Dropbox. Most at home with A/B testing and learning to rank. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Sep 2023 - Present
   Kestrel Mobility · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 15 a week to 4.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 3.
   • Led the migration of 18 services to Elasticsearch.
2. Staff Software Engineer

   Jan 2021 - Sep 2023
   Microsoft · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
   • Led the migration of 65 services to Python.
   • Grew the search team from 3 to 14 engineers.
3. Software Engineer

   Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
   Dropbox · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
   • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 328ms to 57ms.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 6.
4. Software Engineer

   Feb 2016 - Aug 2019
   Lyft · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
   • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 619ms to 53ms.
   • Moved 70% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Software Engineer

   Apr 2014 - Feb 2016
   Snowflake · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
   • Shipped 28 launches on the search team without a rollback.

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Education

1. Princeton University

   AB, Mathematics
   2008 - 2012