Olivia Cameron

Senior Engineering Manager at Valemont Consulting · Distributed databases

Valemont Consulting

Edinburgh, UK · GMT (UTC+0)

13+ years experience

London School of Economics

English

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I've spent 18 years on distributed databases - first at BBC, now at Valemont Consulting. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 17 a week to 2. Before that: Stripe and ASOS.

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RocksDBRustC++consensusRaft

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for an operations co-founder for procurement for pharmacies

The idea: Looking for an operations co-founder for procurement for pharmacies
Stage: Early revenue
I bring: 11 years in distributed databases
Looking for: Product-minded engineer
Commitment: Part-time to start
Location: Edinburgh or remote

I bring 18 years of distributed databases (currently Valemont Consulting). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Edinburgh, UK · remote OKraftrocksdbconsensus

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Experience

Senior Engineering Manager
Feb 2023 - Present
Valemont Consulting · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
- Led the migration of 50 services to Raft.
- Grew the storage team from 4 to 22 engineers.
Staff Software Engineer
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
Stripe · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
- Reduced cloud spend on storage by 18% in two quarters.
- Grew the storage team from 5 to 31 engineers.
Engineering Manager
Nov 2017 - Jan 2021
ASOS · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
- Led the migration of 26 services to consensus.
Engineering Manager
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
Goldman Sachs · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
- Moved 78% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Software Engineer
May 2013 - Jan 2016
BBC · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
- Wrote the Rust service that now handles 88 million requests a day.
- Reduced cloud spend on storage by 44% in two quarters.

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London School of Economics
BSc, Mathematics
2004 - 2007

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