Julia Gordon

Overview

I lead distributed databases at Loom Works in Philadelphia. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 35 a week to 2. Before that: Oracle and Meta. Most at home with performance engineering and Prometheus. Cyclist - trying to do a century this year.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Jan 2023 - Present
   Loom Works · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 4.
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 14 a week to 4.
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 27% in two quarters.
2. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
   Oracle · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
   • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 69 million requests a day.
3. Engineering Manager

   Jun 2017 - Mar 2021
   Meta · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 21% in two quarters.
4. Staff Software Engineer

   Jan 2014 - Mar 2017
   Walmart · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
   • Led the migration of 26 services to performance engineering.
   • Moved 82% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Dec 2010 - Sep 2013
   KPMG · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 2.
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 574ms to 87ms.

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Education

1. Virginia Tech

   BS, Electrical Engineering
   2002 - 2006