Hemi Hamish Anderson

Senior Engineering Manager at Foxconn · Distributed databases · RocksDB, C++

Foxconn

Sydney, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)

16+ years experience

Singapore Management University

English

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Based in Sydney. I lead distributed databases at Foxconn. Moved 62% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Westpac and LINE. Most at home with performance engineering and consensus.

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consensusC++RocksDBRustRaftIAMperformance engineering

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Office hours for new engineering managers: distributed databases and IAM

Topics: distributed databases, RocksDB, C++
Format: Office hours
Terms: Paid
Capacity: One advisory role at a time
Best for: Engineers moving into leadership

17 years of distributed databases. One call a month or async reviews.

Sydney, Australiarustperformance engineeringc++

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Experience

Senior Engineering Manager
Jan 2025 - Present
Foxconn · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
- Reduced cloud spend on storage by 33% in two quarters.
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 40 a week to 3.
- Grew the storage team from 5 to 36 engineers.
Staff Software Engineer
Feb 2021 - Oct 2024
Westpac · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
- Led the migration of 37 services to Raft.
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 12 a week to 3.
Senior Software Engineer
Feb 2017 - Oct 2020
LINE · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
- Built the experimentation framework 25 product teams use to ship changes safely.
Senior Software Engineer
May 2014 - Jan 2017
SK Hynix · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 24 a week to 1.
Software Engineer
Feb 2011 - May 2014
Samsung Electronics · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
- Moved 80% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Singapore Management University
BBM, Information Technology
2004 - 2008

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