What Staff Engineering Actually Means
Staff Engineer is not Senior Engineer with more years. It is a fundamentally different job. Here is what actually changes — and what nobody tells you.
Scaling the World's Data.
Staff DB Engineer at Meta. 15 years of distributed systems.
Architecting MySQL at Billion QPS.
What Drives Me
Three Pillars
Data at Scale
File systems. Load balancers. Now MySQL at Billion QPS. 15 years of making infrastructure disappear behind reliability.
Peak Performance
Steep lines, open water, plant-powered. The same discipline that drives engineering drives everything else.
Engineering Leadership
Mentoring engineers, driving technical strategy, and writing about what actually changes on the Staff+ track.
By the Numbers
1B+
QPS Scaled
15+
Years in Distributed Systems
50+
Ski Resorts Conquered
15+
Engineers Mentored
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