Gregory Harris
Mental Health Therapist at Peaceful Path Therapy LLC
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Harris is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience focused on Kafka and distributed data integration. He contributes to Apache Kafka at Aiven and previously built, maintained, and operationalized Kafka Connect connectors for Confluent Cloud, working across JDBC, HDFS and MirrorMaker components. His backend work includes SQL Server and Postgres dialect adaptations, feature additions, refactors, and test automation that prevent data corruption and improve shutdown/serialization robustness. Greg pairs production-minded engineering with open-source stewardship on high-profile projects like apache/kafka and confluentinc/kafka-connect-jdbc. He holds a strong academic foundation in Computer Science from the University of Maryland (3.81 GPA) and is pursuing PhD-level research in Computer Systems & Networking, bringing research rigor to practical systems problems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Github Skills (24)
kafka-connect10
confluent10
testing10
kafka-connector10
kafkaconnect10
kafka10
hdfs10
data-serialization10
hadoop10
jdbc10
java10
serialization10
javas10
error-handling10
apache-kafka10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:647 reviews, 80 commits, 210 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gregory's primary contributions revolved around enhancing the Kafka codebase, particularly within the areas of transformation and error handling. Their work included implementing new features, such as inserting fields into tombstone events and handling null values within transformations. The user also focused on improving the codebase's robustness and reliability by incorporating various bug fixes and refactoring efforts, including addressing issues in the OffsetStorageWriter, improving shutdown procedures in the MirrorMaker2, and fixing serialization related exceptions. In addition, the user created and modified tests across a range of components, specifically to prevent data corruption or leaks.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
confluentinc/kafka-connect-jdbc
Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
Kafka Connect connector for JDBC-compatible databases
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 20 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gregory primarily contributes to the `kafka-connect-jdbc` project, focused on the JDBC connector for Kafka Connect. Their work includes modifying the core JDBC connector implementation, merging code from different branches, and refactoring the SQL Server database dialect. They addressed minor issues by removing final keywords and integrating documentation updates. Additionally, they worked on database dialect adaptations and improvements for both Postgres and SQL Server.
sinkkafka-connectorconnectorstreamingdatabases
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