Kevin Corcoran
Principal Software Engineer at New Relic
- Role
- Principal Software Engineer - Staff Engineering at New Relic
- Location
- Bellingham, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kevin Corcoran
Software Engineer & Architect with extensive experience in high-throughput distributed systems, functional programming, and open-source software development. I excel at bridging the gap between high-level system design and hands-on coding, with a focus on pragmatic, efficient solutions. I\'m a highly collaborative and supportive team member, committed to mentoring others and building high-performing teams.
Experience
Principal Software Engineer - Staff Engineering
Oct 2023 — Present
Technical lead for a project to develop a reliable, scalable metadata store for New Relic’s in-house distributed database, NRDB. Introduction of a new Java-based API and client library using gRPC and FlatBuffers, allowing for migration from overly-large MySQL databases to a sharded architecture based on PostgreSQL. Design and implementation of a zero-downtime migration process that minimizes overhead while ensuring correctness of query processing. PostgreSQL performance tuning and scaling work in AWS and Azure.
Education
University of Oregon
Master of Science, Computer Science
2007 — 2009
University of Missouri-Columbia
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2003 — 2007
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