More than 11 years of fullstack engineering, building scalable software, leading development of new products and distributed systems from scratch; from prototype to release.

You can see a full PDF of my resume here.

Contacting me via email is best ([email protected]), but you can also text or call the number on my resume. My GitHub is github.com/vogtb.

Experience

Senior Engineer, Team Lead (July 2023 → July 2025) Replo

  • Designed and implemented A/B testing and web analytics products.
  • Realtime high-throughput data processing system for web analytics.
  • Built timeseries query engine with filters, grouping, and aggregation.
  • Shipped features for Replo’s WYSIWYG landing page builder.
  • Established alerting best practices, implemented observability.
  • Had a lot of fun mentoring smart, enthusiastic junior engineers.

Founder and Engineer (July 2018 → July 2023) Protobase

  • Founded company, and built spreadsheet SaaS product.
  • App focused on separation of code, data, and formatting for sheets.
  • Implemented custom Excel and Google Sheets runtime.
  • Improved spreadsheet workflows with custom query language.

Senior Engineer (January 2016 → July 2018) Signal

  • High-throughput, high-scale data engineering, stream processing.
  • Built distributed processing workflows for time-sensitive features.
  • Worked on migration between large globally distributed databases.
  • Built fast, accurate cardinality calculation system for client reports.

Engineer (July 2014 → January 2016) Signal

  • Shipped fullstack features for Tag Management System product.
  • Maintained Cassandra-backed graph database with 100B entries.
  • Rapidly scaled customer-facing timeseries metrics system.
  • Built and maintained company-wide documentation search engine.

Projects

Glade glade.graphics

  • Cross-platform GUI library for Typescript that uses WebGPU.
  • Renders apps at +60fps on macOS, all major browsers.
  • Utilizes Google’s Dawn WebGPU library for native graphics.
  • Support for flexbox, grid, table, fonts, text editing, and SVGs.

VM1

  • Platform for on-demand VMs for sandboxing, dev envs, and hosting.
  • Cold-start VMs < 200ms, 16GB/16vCPU in 3 regions worldwide.
  • Uses Firecracker to run VMs, wireguard for cross-region traffic.
  • SSH interface to start, stop, snapshot, restore VMs.
  • Custom block-storage with ZFS and S3 for nearly instant snapshots.