Oliver Gould

Growing Linkerd. Building Buoyant. Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus

Oliver Gould is the Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Buoyant, Inc, a company he has been part of since February 2015. Based in San Francisco, California, he is recognized for creating Linkerd, a lightweight service mesh that is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which enhances the reliability and observability of microservices.1

Professional Background

Before founding Buoyant, Gould held several significant positions in the tech industry:

Staff Software Engineer at Twitter (August 2010 - February 2015): He served as Traffic Lead and Observability Lead during his tenure.
Senior System Architect at Yahoo! (January 2009 - July 2010): His responsibilities included planning and strategy for operations infrastructure and coordinating software development projects.
Technical Yahoo at Yahoo! (November 2007 - June 2010): He focused on solving network, storage, and system problems.
System Administrator at Stevens Institute of Technology (August 2005 - September 2007).

Education

Gould earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, completing his degree in 2006.1

His extensive experience in software engineering and system architecture has positioned him as a notable figure in the field of cloud-native technologies.