Philip Wernersbach
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Ladder
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Wernersbach is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and databases. He has deep, hands-on expertise across storage and streaming infrastructure—ZippyDB, LogDevice, Wormhole, Presto and cache systems—alongside production experience in Linux kernel environments and embedded real-time systems. Comfortable in many languages (Go, C/C++, Rust, Java, Python, Nim) he moves between low-level performance work and high-level data pipeline design, most recently driving Big Data ingestion at Chronosphere and platform reliability at Ladder. Philip pairs individual technical ownership with team mentorship, having scoped and led feature work on mission-critical services at Facebook. An unusual mix of embedded real-time Linux experience and large distributed systems work gives him insight into both hardware-adjacent constraints and cloud-scale reliability.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bellarmine UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Cum Laude at Northern Kentucky University
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Github Skills (96)
dashboard10
postgresql10
grafana10
metaprogramming10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
monitoring10
system-programming10
linux10
data-visualization10
database10
observability10
mysql10
macros10
analytics10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
philip-wernersbach/influx-mysql
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
influx-mysql is a daemon that converts between InfluxDB and MySQL protocol. It allows time series tools that speak InfluxDB protocol to store and query data natively in MySQL, using InfluxQL or SQL.
Contributions:174 commits, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 1 year 10 months
influxdbinfluxqlmysqlsqltime-series
philip-wernersbach/nim-qt5_qtsql
Apr 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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