Nathan VanBenschoten has been working on CockroachDB for the past 7 years. His focus has been on the performance of CockroachDB’s transaction, replication, and persistence layers. Over the past 2 years, he collaborated with a small team focusing on global deployments of CockroachDB. Before Cockroach Labs, he was an intern on the Google-Wide Profiling team, working on Google’s continuous profiling infrastructure. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Northeastern University.