I'm D. Tripp, a Software Engineer based in San Francisco focused on backend infrastructure and distributed systems.
I currently work on production Kubernetes-based infrastructure systems at scale, with a focus on databases, reliability, and platform automation.
- Kubernetes controllers for managing PostgreSQL (Aurora) infrastructure at scale
- Database connection pool management systems (PGCat) across large service fleets
- Production observability and reliability tooling for distributed storage systems
- On-call and incident response for core infrastructure (Postgres, Redis, Cassandra)
- Distributed systems
- Kubernetes operators & control planes
- Database systems (PostgreSQL / Aurora / Redis)
- Reliability engineering / production systems
- Observability and incident-driven debugging
- Built large-scale data pipeline observability systems at Google
- Worked on petabyte-scale ML infrastructure analytics systems at Quantcast
- Developed distributed simulation systems using Monte Carlo methods at Applied Research Associates
- Contributed to production infrastructure systems across cloud environments (AWS + GCP)
I like building systems that operate reliably at scale and break in interesting ways under load.
Thanks for stopping by.