# Vee Goldsby

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vee

Software engineer experienced in developing distributed, scalable and security-conscious software as a service, independently owning small- to large-scale projects through the full development lifecycle.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Retool
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer, Observability @ Lyft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Senior engineer on Lyft's Observability team, focusing on real-time logging and metrics.

* Oversaw migration of 40-node logging cluster from AWS Elasticsearch to self-hosted
* Engineered improvements to distributed logging pipeline to scale to 6 million events per minute
* Oversaw migration of company dashboards from Wavefront to PromQL

### Member of Technical Staff @ Pure Storage
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, California
Senior engineer on the core engineering team, working primarily with a team of 4-5 persons using Agile release methodology.

Projects:
* Purity, the core system software of the FlashArray all-flash storage array (C++)
* Support, testing, and diagnostic tools (Python)
* Engineering response to internal and external escalations

### Senior Engineer, Data & Analytics @ Mango Health
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA
Sole analytics and data engineer for Mango Health, responsible for the analytics pipeline and the backend infrastructure hosting it.  Initiated significant refactoring and redesign of the backend, and answered analytics requests by internal and external clients.

### Software Engineer, Infrastructure @ Loggly
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA
Software engineer on the Infrastructure team, building and supporting the backend of the 2.0 release of Loggly's cloud-based, multi-tenant Logging-as-a-Service system that launched September 3, 2013.

Highlights:
* Implemented production-ready first versions of alerting and cloud logging services (Java, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Apache Storm, Zookeeper)
* Designed and implemented internal quality-of-service tools responsible for preventing and alerting on service failures (Python, Redis, Zookeeper)
* Made significant performance and stability improvements to the high-performance edge collector component (C++, Boost ASIO)

### Software Engineer, Web and Messaging Security @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Bruno, CA
Software engineer for Security Services team, providing SaaS to Cisco Security customers.

Highlights include taking sole or majority ownership of multiple projects through the development and release cycle, significantly overhauling and updating many critical services, and designing new services to support and augment the Security Services portfolio.  Gained significant experience in Python, MySQL, C/C++, DNS, networks, and security engineering.


## Education
### BA in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/drgoldfish

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Last updated: 2026-04-01