Charity Majors

Charity Majors is an operations and database engineer and sometimes engineering manager. She is the CTO and cofounder of Honeycomb, where they build observability for distributed systems.

In the past, she was a production engineering manager at Facebook and spent 3.5 years working on Parse (both pre and post-acquisition by FB). She also spent several years at Linden Lab, working on the infrastructure and databases that power Second Life. She is the co-author of “Database Reliability Engineering” by O’Reilly.

Charity was a classical piano performance major in college, but dropped out because she prefers not being dirt poor. She has been building systems and engineering teams ever since and loves startups, chaos and hard scaling problems, and somehow she always ends up in charge of the databases.