# Dylan Welch

> Senior Software Engineer and Associate Manager at Aerospike.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dylanwelch

Hi, I'm Dylan. I'm a software engineer with years of experience developing high performance, open source code in Golang, Python, and C. I'm interested in distributed systems, client SDKs, software generated art, and open source projects like OpenTelemetry.

As a senior software engineer at Aerospike I've written user friendly and well tested code for the (Aerospike Python client SDK)[https://pypi.org/project/aerospike/] in Python, C, and CPython with the package getting 300k downloads a month. I'm also developing an open source OpenTelemetry metrics receiver for Aerospike in Golang. My experience writing Golang monitoring tools and Python C extensions for high performance database SDKs gives me a breadth of database ecosystem development knowledge.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer - Core @ Aerospike
Jan 2025 – Present | United States
Promoted to senior role on the core Aerospike database team

Working on high-performance distributed systems and backend architecture

Designing and contributing to Aerospike DB in C

### Software Engineer - Aerospike Vector Search @ Aerospike
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | United States
Key Contributor to the AVS initiative focused on AI and vector search. Developed and maintained multiple products in the space.

Maintained and built the Python client and CLI tooling (asvec) for AVS

Developed LangChain integrations and RAG-based examples

Gained experience in AI, vector embeddings, and Python-based infrastructure

### Associate Engineering Manager - Tools @ Aerospike
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | United States
Led the engineering team creating, maintaining and enhancing critical database tools that enable customers to backup data, manage their database, and more. Created new tools for managing Aerospike configuration in yaml. https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/asconfig . I headed up development, maintenance, and release of the Aerospike tools package. https://aerospike.com/download/tools/

    Oversaw engineering efforts, managed team transitions, and ensured tool reliability

    Balanced hands-on coding with people management, mentoring, and hiring.

### Software Engineer – Python SDK & Tools @ Aerospike
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States
Joined Aerospike as an early contributor to its Python ecosystem and developer tooling.

    - Maintained and improved the open-source Aerospike Python client SDK (300K+ monthly downloads)
Released Python client features like Aerospike expressions, batch operations, and bitwise operations

    - Developed monitoring and observability integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana

    - Delivered internal tools and CI/CD pipelines for test automation, release workflows, and diagnostics

   -  Supported both individual and collaborative development in fast-paced, highly technical environments

🔗 GitHub: [Aerospike Python Client](https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-python)

### Researcher @ Storage Systems Research Center, UC Santa Cruz
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Santa Cruz, California
I work to develop system and design models for brand new cloud edge data management methods.
I am Prototyping protocols and applications with efficient and secure cloud edge data management schemes.

### Teaching Assistant @ Santa Rosa Junior College
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Rosa, California, United States
My responsibilities as a Teaching Assistant for Santa Rosa Junior College included grading homework and providing feedback to students on the, Canvas, learning software platform.

### Clerical Assistant @ Oakmont Senior Living
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Windsor, California
As a Clerical Assistant at Oakmont Senior Living I was responsible for filing the company's invoices and keeping records. I also worked together with staff to locate records for various projects.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz

### Computer Science
Santa Rosa Junior College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dylanwelch97
- Website: https://github.com/dwelch-spike

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Last updated: 2026-04-01