Collin Van Dyck

i like computers

5xx.engineer | collin@5xx.engineer | 678-755-7366 | Durham, NC

Experience

2023-2024

Staff Software Engineer at Cortex.io

• Just getting started – more details to come.

2023-2024

Sr Staff Software Engineer at Rippling

• Rust agent rearchitecture
  • Broke out monolith crate into workspace with sub-crates.
  • Created in-memory work scheduler to replace legacy disk-based system.
  • Created patterns for more modular code components and testability.
• Planned and executed on strategy to improve agent reliability, resuling in 25% increase in HA metrics.
• Introduced CLI tooling to remove roadblocks for common troubleshooting and release processes.
• Mentorship of EIC teammates

2022-2023

Principal Software Engineer at ngrok

• Created stream processing framework to separate business logic from transport details and ensure at-least-once guarantees.
• Built event infrastructure to power customer events and internal BI analysis.
• Overhauled credential and authorization system.
• Mentored early-in-career teammates.
• Led effort to integrate services with open telemetry and Honeycomb.

2018-2022

Principal Software Engineer at Segment

• Maintained ctlstore – Segment’s distributed database / CDN for control data.
• Created and successfully adopted feature flagging system built on ctlstore.
• Maintained event ingest pipeline.
• Built out infrastructure to create and query profile graphs on DynamoDB.

2017-2018

Senior Software Engineer at Mesosphere

• Built DC/OS backup/restore coordination service.
• Took ownership of and maintained shared Go library.
• Created SDK-based frameworks for cluster visibility.

2013-2017

Senior Software Engineer at Librato

• Developed Cassandra time series database.
• Created and maintained real-time alert dection and notification system.
• Built system to import Cloudwatch metrics into Librato.
• Maintained system to import Heroku log-based metrics into Librato.
• Maintained open source Java/Dropwizard Librato integrations.

2012-2013

Senior Software Engineer at Boundary

• Optimized time series streaming system.
• Built out event collection/indexing pipeline using Solr/Postgres.
• Ported erlang services to Dropwizard.
• Built customer-facing daily usage rollup reports.

2011-2012

Software Engineer at Yammer

• Worked on distributed search pipeline (Lucene, homegrown index replication)
• Helped maintain distributed message store (BDB-JE)
• Built LDAP synchronization service
• Built streaming data export service

2007-2011

Owner at Nimble Technique

• Consulting focused on helping companies with their Ruby/Java/Scala infrastructure.

Education

B.S of Science in Computer Science Georgia Tech, 1998