Lucy Wallace

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VP of Engineering at Ivory Labs · Cloud infrastructure · Linux, incident response

Ivory Labs
Los Angeles, CA · PT (UTC-8)
11+ years experience
Georgia Tech
English
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Overview

Currently at Ivory Labs, where I lead cloud infrastructure with a team of 51. Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 15 million requests a day. Moved 87% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Lockheed Martin and Target. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Advice on cloud infrastructure
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on PostgreSQL decisions
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Crypto token projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

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Skills
PostgreSQLGoTerraformKubernetesincident responsePrometheusLinux
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for early-stage teams: cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL

Topics
cloud infrastructure, PostgreSQL, Terraform
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Paid
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

14 years of cloud infrastructure. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Los Angeles, CAgopostgresqllinux
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HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

9 mobile engineer roles open on the infrastructure team in Los Angeles

Role
Mobile engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$143k-$210k
Team
Infrastructure, 13 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Go Production experience with Linux Good judgment about what not to build
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $150k-$241k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Los Angeles, CA · remote OKterraformlinuxprometheus
Open

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Ivory Labs · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 19 a week to 3.
    • Moved 74% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 640ms to 95ms.
  2. Senior Site Reliability Engineer
    Jul 2022 - Dec 2024
    Lockheed Martin · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Wrote the Terraform service that now handles 61 million requests a day.
  3. Site Reliability Engineer
    May 2021 - Jul 2022
    Target · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 35 a week to 4.
    • Shipped 14 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
  4. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Oct 2018 - May 2021
    Nike · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 29% in two quarters.
    • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 71 million requests a day.
  5. Site Reliability Engineer
    Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
    Databricks · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 3.
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 24 a week to 4.

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Education

  1. Georgia Tech
    BS, Electronics and Communication
    2007 - 2011

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