Robert Fuller

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Senior Engineering Manager at Cairn HQ · Distributed databases

Cairn HQ
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
UCLA
English
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Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Cairn HQ, focused on distributed databases. Built the experimentation framework 22 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Meta and Procter & Gamble. Most at home with consensus and Rust. Kannada theatre fan.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on Rust decisions
  • Questions about distributed databases
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Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
RustC++RaftconsensusRocksDBperformance engineering

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Cairn HQ · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Built the experimentation framework 28 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the storage team from 4 to 31 engineers.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Apr 2021 - Feb 2025
    Meta · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 335ms to 158ms.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Jun 2019 - Apr 2021
    Procter & Gamble · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 18% in two quarters.
    • Shipped 18 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  4. Software Engineer
    Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
    Salesforce · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 45% in two quarters.
    • Shipped 22 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  5. Software Engineer
    Jun 2015 - Aug 2017
    UnitedHealth Group · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 12 a week to 1.

Projects

Write-up: distributed databases in practice
2025

A long-form guide to distributed databases for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from storage
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling distributed databases.

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Education

  1. UCLA
    BS, Mathematics
    2010 - 2014

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