I am a Technical Director at Roblox, the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends and by anything you can imagine.
I love Roblox for all the fun it brings to the world. And I love working with the Open Source community – especially Erlang and Elixir. I’m a board member of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, and a CodeSync speaker.
Experience
Technical Director, Creator Group, 2023-present
Built Secrets Store, an end-to-end encrypted platform for securely delivering sensitive information like API keys, passwords and access tokens to authenticate with external services.
Bringing many more runtime Services to Creators, watch the upcoming announces!
Core Infrastructure Lead, 2017-2023
Enabled scaling from 1B to 2.5B users and beyond. Redefined service discovery for WhatsApp, and then for all Erlang/Elixir users (contributed pg upstream). Solved Erlang cluster scalability problems and productionized cluster connectivity over TLS.
Created WhatsApp in a BEAM, an instant way to bring up a new instance of WhatsApp server. It revolutionized development processes, end-to-end and integration testing.
Converged internal OTP fork with upstream, and harnessed Erlang updates with Continuous Integration. This enabled 25% server footprint reduction for WhatsApp, and opened the door for open source contributions.
Introduced and scaled build and test tooling, enabling type-checking and third-party integrations.
Created and open sourced power_shell, production debug tool that became de-facto standard for white-box unit testing at WhatsApp. Another project, erlperf, often named standard micro-benchmarking tool for Erlang.
Redesigned WhatsApp server configuration pipeline, reducing multiple legacy systems to a single unified approach.
Trained a fantastic team.
Software Engineer, 2016-2017
Designed and implemented CLI (Command Line Interface) to access production machines. The successor, argparse, became de-facto standard for Erlang/OTP.
Implemented global partitioned circuit breakers (gating) for all services.
Succeeded with seamless migration from bare-metal FreeBSD deployment and OTP 16 to Linux containers with OTP 20.
Founding member, 2018-present
Founding member since the original announcement in 2019. Re-elected in 2021 and 2022.
Active contributor of Security, Build & Packaging, and Infrastructure working groups.
NetAlliance Pty Ltd (acquired by MelbourneIT)
Software Engineer, 2010-2016
Designed, implemented and made netfleet.com.au to be Australia’s leading platform for expired domain drop catching.
Prepared for launch in New Zealand and India.
System Analyst, 2009-2010
Delivered requirements and technical specifications for Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8.0.
Program Manager, 2008-2009
Shipped Parallels Virtual Automation 4.5
Prepared for Parallels Virtual Automation 5.0 launch.
Architect, 2006-2008
Delivered specifications for core components (VM and Container templates, Security, Audit, Infrastructure Management, Power Panel Policies, ISO image library, Licensing, Hypervisor Virtualization Support).
Software Developer, 2005-2006
Designed and implemented major components of Parallels Infrastructure Manager 4.0.
Prior experience available on request.
The other side of me
I am passionate about Erlang and the entire BEAM ecosystem. I love my job and my family. But I need something else keep mental sanity. Join me in the sky!