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Sarah Chen

Staff Software Engineer • San Francisco, CA

About

Building elegant systems at scale. Focused on distributed systems, database internals, and high-performance computing. Author of "Scale-First Design" and frequent contributor to the Go runtime. I believe in simple abstractions for complex problems and mentoring the next generation of infrastructure engineers.

Experience

2024 — Current

Staff Engineer

Stripe

Leading the Core Infrastructure team. Moved 5PB of data with zero downtime. Mentoring senior engineers organization-wide.

2023 — 2024

Senior Software Engineer

Google

Core Search Infrastructure. Optimized indexing latency by 15% for real-time news results.

2021 — 2023

Software Engineer

Dropbox

Built the first version of the Sync Engine in Rust. Reduced client-side CPU usage by 40%.

Projects

Chronos DB

High-performance time-series database optimized for IoT.

Raft-Go

Educational implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm in Go.

Education

2021 — 2024

M.S. Computer Science

Stanford UniversityDistributed Systems

Skills

Distributed Systems, Go / Rust

Crafting delightful, human-centric experiences.

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Marcus Wright

Principal Product Designer • London, UK

Dribbble

TLDR

Crafting delightful, human-centric experiences through rigorous research and iterative design. Currently leading the Airbnb Host ecosystem design team, focusing on empowering millions of hosts worldwide. I bridge the gap between business goals and user needs with a focus on accessibility and emotional design.

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Airbnb

Jan 2023 — Current

Lead Product Designer

Reimagined the hosting experience. Led cross-functional team of 16. Increased retention by 22%.

Figma

Jan 2021 — Jan 2023

Senior Product Designer

Designed core features for Auto Layout 3.0. Conducted extensive user research with 100+ design teams.

Intercom

Jan 2019 — Jan 2021

Product Designer

Lead designer for the Messenger team. Shipped the first version of the Custom Bots platform.

Work

Airbnb Host Redesign

Jan 2026

Comprehensive study on simplifying the host dashboard.

Design Systems Audit

Jan 2026

A framework for evaluating the health of enterprise design systems.

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Royal College of Art

Sep 2017 — Jun 2019

MA Design Products in Product Design

Skills

Design Strategy

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Alex Kumar

Infrastructure Engineer in Austin, TX

Infrastructure as code enthusiast and automation advocate. I specialize in building resilient, self-healing systems and developer platforms that scale. Currently focused on the future of serverless compute and edge internals at Vercel. I believe the best infrastructure is the kind you never have to think about.

Experience

Staff Engineerat Vercel

Jan '25 — Current

Architecting next-gen serverless compute. Cold-start optimizations and Edge internals.

Senior Infrastructure Engineerat HashiCorp

Jan '23 — Jan '25

Maintained core Terraform providers. Improved provider performance by 30% through parallelization.

DevOps Engineerat DigitalOcean

Jan '21 — Jan '23

Automated Kubernetes cluster provisioning. Managed 500+ nodes across multiple regions.

Projects

OpenConfig

Declarative infrastructure configuration tool written in Rust.

Kube-Watch

Real-time monitoring and alerting for Kubernetes events.

Education

B.S. Computer ScienceSep '16 — May '20

University of Texas at Austin · Systems Engineering

Skills

Kubernetes

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Staff Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Airbnb

Figma

Intercom

Airbnb Host Redesign

Design Systems Audit

Royal College of Art

Projects

Chronos DB

Raft-Go

Work

Airbnb Host Redesign

Design Systems Audit

Projects