Olivia Cole

Overview

CTO at Tandem Logistics, focused on distributed databases. Grew the storage team from 4 to 18 engineers. Reduced cloud spend on storage by 28% in two quarters. Before that: Dropbox and Coinbase. Most at home with Rust and consensus.

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Experience

1. CTO

   Aug 2024 - Present
   Tandem Logistics · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 506ms to 63ms.
   • Moved 82% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Director of Engineering

   Aug 2021 - Aug 2024
   Dropbox · 3 yr · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 35 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 785ms to 162ms.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Apr 2019 - Aug 2021
   Coinbase · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 25% in two quarters.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
   Chewy · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Grew the storage team from 5 to 19 engineers.
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 16 a week to 4.
5. Software Engineer

   Aug 2014 - Sep 2017
   Instacart · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Moved 63% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. Wharton

   MBA, Business Administration
   2006 - 2008
2. Rice University

   BA, Computer Science
   2000 - 2004