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Staff Infrastructure Engineer

7 years · 12,384 commits · 64 public repos

about

Builds the systems other engineers depend on. Distributed systems, ML platforms, and the boring middle layers that have to be fast. Recognized open-source maintainer of ferrium/task-queue (2.4k★) and co-author of edge-fn/runtime (1.9k★). Cross-functional collaboration with 184 engineers across 4 organizations.

selected projects

ferrium/task-queue2020-08–now · ★ 2,421
Author & maintainer · Rust
  • Distributed task queue with at-least-once delivery, in Rust. Powers async work for ~40 backend services.
lumen/ml-pipelines2021-04–now · ★ 1,184
Core maintainer · Python
  • Pipeline toolkit for shipping ML models to production — feature stores, model registries, eval harness.
edge-fn/runtime2022-02–now · ★ 1,893
Co-author · TypeScript
  • WASM-based edge function runtime with sub-ms cold starts. Sandboxes untrusted workloads on shared infra.
grok-replay2023-06–now · ★ 487
Author · Go
  • Record/replay debugger for gRPC services. Captures real prod traffic and replays against canaries.

trajectory

2025
Current focus
Reducing edge runtime cold-start from 0.8ms → 0.2ms. Mentoring two new maintainers on `task-queue`.
2024
LLM eval infra at scale
Pivoted into LLM platform work. Built `eval-harness` and wired it into CI for 6 production LLM apps.
2023
`grok-replay` + first conference talk
Built a record/replay debugger for gRPC. Presented at StrangeLoop — first time speaking publicly about her work.
2022
Co-authored `edge-fn/runtime`
Two-engineer side project that grew into a startup's core product. Sub-ms cold starts via WASM + V8 isolates.