Joey Lynch is a Principal Software Engineer for Netflix who focuses on building highly-reliable and high-leverage data abstractions on top of datastore infrastructure. He is a core contributor to Netflix’s datastore platform, which supports a polyglot data tier including Cassandra, Elasticsearch, CockroachDB, Zookeeper and more. He loves building distributed systems and learning the fun and exciting ways that they scale, operate, and break. Having wrangled many large scale distributed systems over the years, he currently spends much of his time wrangling KeyValue and TimeSeries event stores.