Staff Software Engineer
Arjun Patel
I build reliable distributed systems and the tooling teams need to ship them.
- Go
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
Projects
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Tracebridge
Lightweight OpenTelemetry collector with smarter sampling. Adopted by 30+ engineering teams.
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pg-hot-shards
Postgres extension for online resharding without downtime. Talk at PGCon 2024.
incident-replay
Internal tool used at $WORK to replay past production incidents in a safe sandbox.
Tracebridge
Lightweight OpenTelemetry collector with smarter sampling. Adopted by 30+ engineering teams.
pg-hot-shards
Postgres extension for online resharding without downtime. Talk at PGCon 2024.
incident-replay
Internal tool used at $WORK to replay past production incidents in a safe sandbox.
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The work, in their words.
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- 11+
Arjun is a Staff Software Engineer who has spent the last decade making large backend systems faster, safer, and more legible to the humans who run them. He has led on platform reliability at two unicorn startups and contributed to several widely-used open-source libraries in the Go ecosystem. His writing and conference talks focus on the operational side of software — incident review, observability, and team cognitive load.
What I build with
Day-to-day tools and frameworks I reach for.
Background
Where I’ve worked, sorted newest first.
Staff Software Engineer
2022 → NowDrift Systems
Current role
Senior Backend Engineer
2018 – 2022Layer Cake
Software Engineer
2014 – 2018Northstar Health
PGCON 2024 · 14 MIN
How Tracebridge handles 30k spans/sec
Lightning talk on smarter sampling for OpenTelemetry collectors.
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