Gregory Mankes

Senior Software Engineer

Brooklyn, New York

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in aerospace and defense, consumer electronics, marketing and advertising, IaaS and PaaS industries. Skilled in Software and Electrical Engineering, Golang, and Python.

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About Me

I'm a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience building distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications. My expertise spans multiple industries including aerospace, defense, consumer electronics, and cloud infrastructure.

Currently working at NVIDIA on the DCA Team, I specialize in Go and distributed systems architecture, and have a strong background in developing scalable services and optimizing performance.

I'm passionate about building reliable, efficient software systems and mentoring junior engineers. My experience ranges from low-level embedded systems to large-scale distributed platforms.

Experience

Feb 2026 - Present

NVIDIA

Senior Software Engineer

Brooklyn, NY

  • DCA Team - Keeping the cloud up and running.
  • Simplifying remote execution of containers on target nodes.
June 2025 - Feb 2026

Temporal Technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Brooklyn, NY

  • IAM/API Team - Working on the systems that empower organizations to use Temporal Cloud.
  • Migrated to bufbuild/buf to provide middleware validation for all RPCs.
  • Worked on migration to cloud apis and subsequent CLIs.
Mar 2024 - June 2025

Docker, Inc

Senior Software Engineer

Registry Team

  • Registry Team - Working on the systems that back Docker Hub.
  • Used DynamoDB to provide critical metadata on docker image storage.
  • Created Kafka and SQS consumers and producers to process and backfill large quantities of data.
June 2019 - Feb 2024

DigitalOcean

Senior Software Engineer 2

Greater New York City Area

  • Developed services for provisioning Block Storage, Object Storage, Content Delivery Networks, Cloud Native App Platforms, Serverless Functions, and Databases as a Service
  • Contributed to the launch of MongoDBaaS, App Platform, and Functions
  • Supported DO's App Platform offering – a kubernetes platform as a service
  • Developed distributed provisioning systems in Go, refactoring and deprecating legacy systems in Ruby
  • Developed REST/gRPC microservices in Go, as well as worker services using Kafka, Temporal, and RabbitMQ
Mar 2017 - June 2019

Kargo

Software Engineer 2

New York City

  • Developed multithreaded and distributed low latency software systems
  • Deployed web services and cronjobs in Docker containers on the Kubernetes platform, both on AWS and GCP
  • Integrated systems with the CNCF Jaeger distributed open source tracing implementation of the Opencensus standard
  • Created applications based on serverless technologies (lambda, kubeless)
  • Designed and implemented microservices which communicated via http/tcp/gRPC
  • Worked on systems with integrations with S3, Snowflake, Postgres, Redis, MySQL, BoltDB and other storage applications
  • Designed and created tooling for deploying, monitoring, and debugging concurrent systems
  • Aided in the development of Kargo's in house CI/CD tooling
  • Developed automated reporting scripts and tests, including unit/integration tests in Golang and Python
  • Built large scale data ingestion applications, as well as aided in the development of Kargo's data ETL pipeline
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

Oregon State University

Student

Greater New York City Area

  • Full/part time student. Enrolled in upper level courses during the winter, spring and fall of 2016
Aug 2014 - June 2016

Lockheed Martin

Associate Member of the Engineering Staff

Moorestown NJ

  • Member of the software team on version 5.1 of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system
  • Optimized performance of the tactical C++ code
  • Responsible for designing, creating, and maintaining timing tools (MATLAB) to analyze performance of the BMD 5.1
  • Created flow diagrams of systems specifications prior to the software design phase for rapid transition from design to production
  • Participated in mini/code reviews with the software team
  • Devised methodologies for obtaining requested data without explicit need for developers to code the fields as output

Skills

Languages

Golang Python

Cloud & Infrastructure

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Databases & Storage

PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Amazon DynamoDB Amazon S3 Snowflake

Technologies & Tools

REST APIs gRPC Apache Kafka Temporal Github Actions Docker Kubernetes Linux

Education

Villanova University

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

2010 - 2014

Oregon State University

Computer Science

2016

Get In Touch

Email

gregmankes@gmail.com

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/gregory-mankes