Kendrick Bryant

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Staff Software Engineer, PayPal - RocksDB · consensus · performance engineering

PayPal
San Jose, CA · PT (UTC-8)
14+ years experience
Cornell University
English, Spanish
Co-founder
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Overview

Based in San Jose. I work on distributed databases at PayPal. Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 679ms to 175ms. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 15 a week to 3. Before that: eBay and Comcast. Yoga every morning.

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  • People who want to build this with me
  • Working sessions on consensus
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Skills
C++consensusRocksDBperformance engineering
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for payroll for manufacturers in Southeast Asia

The idea
Payroll for manufacturers in Southeast Asia
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
4 years in distributed databases
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
San Jose or remote

I bring 14 years of distributed databases (currently PayPal). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

San Jose, CArocksdbc++consensus
Open

Experience

  1. Staff Software Engineer
    Dec 2022 - Present
    PayPal · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Wrote the consensus service that now handles 30 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 32% in two quarters.
    • Built the experimentation framework 17 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
    eBay · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 57 million requests a day.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Feb 2018 - Mar 2021
    Comcast · 3 yr 1 mo · Contract · San Jose, CA
    • Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  4. Software Engineer
    May 2015 - Feb 2018
    Capital One · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Shipped 16 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 40 a week to 1.
  5. Software Engineer
    Feb 2013 - Feb 2015
    Adobe · 2 yr · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Shipped 24 launches on the storage team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Cornell University
    BS, Computer Science
    2007 - 2011

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