Bio

I am a software engineer with 8+ years of experience and with a focus on micro-services, distributed systems, big data, and cloud architecture. My passion is taking a near-impossible problem and helping make it a success, both through direct contribution as well as helping level-up and educate engineers in a new skill-set. I have extensive experience with a number of big data Apache projects such as Flink, Spark, and Pulsar. I also have contributed to a number of these projects and have experience in making customizations needed to fit the needs of an organization. I have worn a lot of hats: individual contributor, tech lead, architect, dev-ops engineer, and tech evangelist. See my open source history at https://github.com/addisonj. Tech I currently use daily: Apache Flink Apache Spark Apache Pulsar Apache Zookeeper Kubernetes Postgres Debezium Scala Java Go Node.js Ruby Tech I want to learn: Rust