Laurent Demailly
Cloud Engineering at Roku Inc.
Saratoga, California
Overview
Work Experience
Cloud Engineering
2020 - 2024
Bringing Service Mesh, Observability, Operability, Automation, Security, Multi-Region and more to accelerate Roku cloud services development
Roku develops video streaming devices that provide users access to Internet-streamed video or audio services.
Raised $212,009,000.00 from Fox Networks Group, Fidelity, Sky UK, Paramount, Good Technology, Globespan Capital Partners, News Corp, Hearst Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
Staff Engineer
2017 - 2018
Istio (https://istio.io) service mesh. Open source: https://github.com/istio. Lead for Performance and Scalability. Fortio (https://fortio.org/) author.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Software Engineer Technical Lead
2011 - 2017
2015-2017: Team Lead for Stargate (internal code name) Stargate is about seamlessly managing stateful services, starting with RocksDB based databases. It enables automatic backups and recoveries, peer2peer data transfers, shard movement and management, optimizes for cross region traffic, etc... In 2015: We started by building WDT, Warp speed Data Transfer, a open source library and command line tool for ultra high performance data transfers: https://github.com/facebook/wdt In 2016 we focused on Stargate per se and in June 2016 we had the first production use case with 2 more since on thousands of servers and more to come. 2011-2014: Wormhole Team Lead https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/wormhole-pubsub-system-moving-data-through-space-and-time/10151504075843920
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Architect
2006 - 2011
2006-2009: Ad Systems, Media Monetization Engineering (MME), Advertising Products Group (APG): User Data Store (UDS) Engineering Lead; Architect. Created automatic capacity addition and automated failover for a live real time distributed data store (UDS). The team I lead also made significant improvements to the replication system, the internal index structures and garbage collection processes of this log structured (supports 1:1 read/write ratio) high performance data store. 2008: Promoted to director level IC equivalent (IC6). Since 2009: Cloud Computing Architect (UDS/UPS/messaging) and technical leadership - yet still producing hands on deliverables when not mentoring teammates or assisting with production or other troubleshooting. Created selective intelligent worldwide cross data centers replication and server side data store append/increment operations for UDS. Supported the design and implementation of the event driven plan and execution engine and performance and architectural improvements for UPS (broker service). Also key contributor to Yahoo's real time advertising, targeting, location, personalization services. Our system did more than 50 billion queries every 24h, with a few milliseconds response time - one of the largest online serving system in the world
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Principal Software Engineer
2003 - 2006
RTM Messaging, Advertising, Personalization platform and specialized session servers tracking billions of impressions and events/day
EBay Ventures invests in disruptive companies that are revolutionizing the commerce landscape.
Manager of Software Development
2003 - 2003
Qualys is the pioneer and leading provider of information security and compliance cloud solutions.
Raised $34,000,000.00 from Mercury Interactive, Trident Capital and ABS Ventures.
Founding Engineer; Sr Architect; Platform Software Manager
1999 - 2003
Xtime is a provider of hosted customer relationship management (CRM) for automotive service departments in North America.
Raised $59,348,000.00 from Saints Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lumia Capital, Saints Capital and RPM Ventures.
Staff Software Engineer
1997 - 1999
Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.
Lead Software Engineer
1996 - 1997
Research Engineer
1991 - 1996
Education
PhD
1990 - 1996
Master
1987 - 1990
Math Spe M
1985 - 1987