Naomi Lucas

Overview

Currently at Snowflake, where I lead distributed databases with a team of 38. Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely. Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 532ms to 151ms. Before that: Microsoft and Atlassian. Most at home with Raft and Rust. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   May 2023 - Present
   Snowflake · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 5.
2. Software Engineer

   Mar 2021 - May 2023
   Microsoft · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Shipped 20 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 33 a week to 3.
3. Software Engineer

   Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
   Atlassian · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 2.
   • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 76 million requests a day.
4. Software Engineer

   Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
   HP · 9 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 86 million requests a day.

Projects

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Education

1. Kellogg School of Management

   MBA, Business Administration
   2020 - 2022
2. UC San Diego

   BS, Electronics and Communication
   2013 - 2017