Hi! I’m Marion Lang. I’m currently a principal engineer at GitHub. Before this, I built streaming systems at Google. In past lives, I’ve also been a computer science professor, most recently at Rhodes College. As a professor, I was passionate about teaching novices, and loved teaching in small liberal arts college environments.
As an engineer I have a specific interest in distributed systems and associated problems of scale. I enjoy making those problems of scale understandable and managable through abstractions that span bare metal to cloud.
My academic background is theory–specification/verification of distributed algorithms with a particular interest in properties other than correctness. My industry work is the performance-oriented engineering of “internet-scale” systems.
I do not use generative AI for my writing.