Toria Gibbs

Staff infrastructure person. Interested in search engines, databases, distributed systems. Has opinions on metrics, monitoring, on-call.

Work Experience

Working on Shopify's database platform (MySQL, Vitess, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform)
On-call for Vitess issues

Working on Shopify's search platform (Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform)
On-call for search platform
Continuous improvements to quality and performance of search indexing pipeline (Elasticsearch, Ruby/Rails, Kafka)
Project lead for reindex progress tracking and health checking

On-call for Etsy's search infrastructure
Key contributor to Etsy's first exploration into containers and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud migration (Google Cloud Platform)
- Took the lead on exploration of monitoring and alerting tools, executing much of the work which became the basis for the Observability Team's core monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Nagios, Grafana)
- Worked with deployment infrastructure team to create a secure pipeline for deploying to on-premises Kubernetes and GKE both (read more on Etsy's engineering blog)
Launched new sharded, distributed Solr index for listings search (Java, Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch)
- Took ownership of operability testing, setting a new standard for gameday testing at Etsy (bash)
- Improved system monitoring, metrics, and alerting (PHP, Python, Graphite, StatsD, Nagios)

Designed and developed new curve generation system (C++, SQL, bash)
- Includes backfilling curves with historical data based on current rules. Improved from 1-2 weeks manual process to 2-4 hours automatic process (C++, bash)
Managed the expansion and release of Bloomberg’s regulatory accounting product, coordinating 15 developers across 5 teams and interfacing with managers from 3 business areas (C++, project management)
Took ownership of equity derivatives volatility tools:
- Re-wrote historical volatility back-end from scratch, made improvements to UI (C++, JavaScript)
- Created new intraday volatility UI with real-time updates; worked closely with Charts development team to pioneer the use of a new internal technology for populating custom data to charts in real-time (C++, JavaScript, internal tools)
- Implemented option search autocomplete and wrote the now-widely-used internal documentation on custom autocomplete contexts (C++, JavaScript, CLucene, internal tools)

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