Coba Weel
Davis, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorCoba Weel is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years building distributed systems, observability tooling, and developer productivity platforms, currently returning to Palantir. He has a track record of turning slow, fragile build-and-test workflows into fast, reliable CI systems that run full test suites on developer laptops within minutes, and has founded and grown teams to deliver those improvements. His background includes designing distributed tracing at Facebook and architecting subsystems for a transactional database at Palantir, pairing deep systems expertise with pragmatic product focus. A committed mentor and manager, he prioritizes hiring and developing diverse teams while shifting organizations from waterfall to agile practices. An unusual personal detail: some of his earlier repositories still use a previous name, reflecting a long history across companies and roles. Based in Davis, California, he blends academic training from Caltech and VU Amsterdam with real-world experience shipping large-scale infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
homebrew9
command-line-tool9
rust8
coreutils8
event-binding8
busybox8
launch4j7
cross-platform7
gradle-plugin6
gnu-coreutils6
java6
executable6
gradle5
mvc5
cargo5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cobaweel/willow
Nov 2009 - Nov 2010
Contributions:25 commits in 11 months
pythonexperimental-economicseconomicspython-framework
cobaweel/aoc
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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