Julian Koch

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Engineering Manager at Parkway Consulting · Distributed databases · performance engineering, Raft

Parkway Consulting
Zurich, Switzerland · CET (UTC+1)
11+ years experience
University of Amsterdam
English, German, French
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Overview

I lead distributed databases at Parkway Consulting in Zurich. Moved 69% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Built the experimentation framework 30 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: UniCredit and LVMH.

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Skills
Raftperformance engineeringconsensusRustC++RocksDB
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Building out storage at Parkway Consulting: backend engineers wanted in Zurich

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$183k-$232k + equity
Team
Storage, 15 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with RocksDB Production experience with Raft Comfort with ambiguity
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp €86k-€139k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Parkway Consulting · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 40% in two quarters.
    • Built the experimentation framework 15 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Software Engineer
    Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
    UniCredit · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 3 million requests a day.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Jan 2021 - Jun 2023
    LVMH · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 16 a week to 4.
  4. Software Engineer
    Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
    Allegro · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 400ms to 44ms.
    • Wrote the C++ service that now handles 79 million requests a day.
  5. Software Engineer
    Feb 2016 - May 2019
    Ericsson · 3 yr 3 mo · Contract · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 714ms to 60ms.

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Education

  1. University of Amsterdam
    BSc, Computer Science
    2010 - 2013

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