Top Software Engineers in

Distributed Data Systems and Analytics Technology

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java
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database
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big-data
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sql
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apache

Distributed Data Systems and Analytics Technology focuses on the design, development, and optimization of systems that manage, analyze, and process distributed datasets across various computing environments. It combines methodologies from big data analytics and database management, employing technologies such as Hadoop, SQL, NoSQL, and real-time data streaming. This field is integral to improving data accessibility and performance, facilitating advanced analytics in cloud-native and IoT applications.

Ranks are based on the open source contributions and reassessed every 30 days

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1

Co-founder of DataStax at Datastax
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United States
Rock Star
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/cassandra
29 reviews, 6505 commits, 12 PRs in 7 years 5 months
jbellis/cassandra
592 commits, 6 PRs, 82 pushes in 8 years 4 months
datastax/cassandra
439 reviews, 3 commits, 178 PRs in 1 day
Top skills
Score
java
10
animation
10
information-retrieval
10

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2

Software Engineer at Confluent Inc., Apache Kafka Committer
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
1995 reviews, 1034 commits, 1759 PRs in 7 years 8 months
confluentinc/kafka
34 reviews, 67 commits, 102 PRs in 6 years
hachikuji/kafka
5 PRs, 2801 pushes, 856 branches in 8 years 9 months
Top skills
Score
system-integration
10
connect
10
protobuf
10

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3

Distinguished Engineer at Confluent
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United States
Rock Star
16 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
1512 reviews, 964 commits, 1499 PRs in 7 years 11 months
ijuma/kafka
321 commits, 12 PRs, 1984 pushes in 7 years 3 months
apache/kafka-site
13 reviews, 44 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
amazon-s3
10
service-discovery
10
sling
10

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4

Co-creator of Presto and Trino, CTO at Starburst Data
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United States
Rock Star
19 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
prestodb/presto
2293 commits, 2396 PRs, 1435 pushes in 6 years 4 months
prestodb/prestodb.github.io
58 commits, 12 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 years 8 months
trinodb/docs.trino.io
55 commits, 1 PR, 57 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
webservices
10
h2
10
analytics
10

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5

Seasoned Cloud Engineer.Scrappy Hacker.Ph.D. in Programming Language Theory. at Google
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United States
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/beam
3 releases, 1027 reviews, 2760 commits in 6 years 11 months
apache/beam-site
1 review, 87 commits, 34 PRs in 6 years 11 months
GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK
275 commits, 47 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years
Top skills
Score
java
10
apache-beam
10
streaming
10

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6

Software Engineer | Apache Committer and PMC member (Kafka, Flink, Storm) at The Apache Software Foundation
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
1507 reviews, 767 commits, 1503 PRs in 6 years 10 months
confluentinc/kafka-streams-examples
32 reviews, 630 commits, 160 PRs in 4 years 10 months
apache/kafka-site
13 reviews, 38 commits, 87 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
protobuf
10
stream
10
stream-processing
10

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7

Data Systems Researcher and Developer, Investor, Advisor at The Apache Software Foundation
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
1086 reviews, 712 commits, 1524 PRs in 7 years 9 months
guozhangwang/kafka
586 commits, 23 PRs, 1600 pushes in 7 years 4 months
confluentinc/kafka
4 reviews, 148 commits, 94 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
key-value-database
10
kafka-consumer
10
kafka-streams
10

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8

Software Engineer at Google
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United States
Rock Star
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
cython/cython-issues
331 commits, 355 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
apache/beam
1295 reviews, 2350 commits, 2015 PRs in 7 years
cython/cython
27 reviews, 2729 commits, 220 PRs in 15 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
google-cloud-platform
10
bigquery
10
golang
10

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9

Software Engineer at Datastax
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France
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/cassandra
2834 commits in 10 years 5 months
pcmanus/cassandra
682 commits, 56 PRs, 365 pushes in 8 years 8 months
apache/cassandra-java-driver
700 commits, 6 comments in 2 years 1 month
Top skills
Score
apollo-federation
10
cqlsh
10
configurable
10

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10

Lord of Escalations at DataStax
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United States
Rock Star
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/cassandra
62 reviews, 2634 commits, 12 PRs in 12 years 9 months
driftx/cassandra
543 commits, 756 pushes, 792 branches in 10 years 10 months
scylladb/scylla-cqlsh
135 commits in 10 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
oracle-database
10
osgi
10
cql
10

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11

Co-creator of Trino and Presto, CTO at Starburst Data
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United States
Rock Star
21 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
prestodb/presto
1652 commits, 897 PRs, 489 pushes in 6 years
airlift/airlift
107 reviews, 1037 commits, 214 PRs in 10 years 7 months
apache/openejb
1417 commits in 5 years
Top skills
Score
configuration-management
10
coordination
10
distributed-lock
10

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12

Employed at Confluent
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
309 reviews, 589 commits, 717 PRs in 7 years 9 months
apache/kafka-site
3 reviews, 14 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 3 months
rajinisivaram/kafka
3 PRs, 1150 pushes, 392 branches in 7 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
protobuf
10
asynchronous
10
non-blocking
10

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13

Relaxing / Travelling at UNQORK INC.
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/beam-site
22 commits, 14 PRs, 1 push in 6 years 9 months
apache/beam
1 release, 888 reviews, 1739 commits in 7 years
lukecwik/incubator-beam
338 commits, 8 PRs, 2202 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
google-cloud-platform
10
beam
10
google-cloud
10

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14

Director of Engineering at Google
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/beam
331 reviews, 1474 commits, 1403 PRs in 6 years 11 months
apache/beam-site
1 review, 102 commits, 28 PRs in 5 years 2 months
kennknowles/beam
7 commits, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
java
10
google-cloud-dataflow
10
automation
10

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15

Founding Engineer at Responsive & PMC member/committer on Apache Kafka
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
1171 reviews, 423 commits, 559 PRs in 3 years 11 months
ableegoldman/kafka
10 reviews, 14 PRs, 2831 pushes in 5 years 4 months
apache/kafka-site
7 reviews, 12 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
kafka-consumer
10
spring-boot
10
interactive
10

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16

Principal Engineer at Confluent
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United States
Rock Star
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
1655 reviews, 423 commits, 956 PRs in 6 years 1 month
cloudera/hadoop-common.old
617 commits in 1 year 2 months
confluentinc/kafka
99 reviews, 429 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
system-integration
10
castle
10
confluent-cloud
10

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17

Software Engineer at Apple
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/cassandra
175 reviews, 1730 commits, 15 PRs in 10 years 1 month
iamaleksey/cassandra
527 commits, 647 pushes, 471 branches in 6 years 1 month
riptano/cassandra-dtest-deprecated
64 commits, 15 PRs, 32 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
oracle-database
10
application-framework
10
apache
10

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18

AI supercomputers & robotics at OpenAI
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United States
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
prestodb/presto
1057 commits, 787 PRs, 449 pushes in 3 years 7 months
ros/rosdistro
1 review, 96 commits, 66 PRs in 7 years
cberner/redb
40 releases, 56 reviews, 721 commits in 4 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
lock-free
10
transactional
10
filesystem
10

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19

Senior Software Engineer | Tech Lead at Google.com
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/beam
1266 commits, 803 PRs, 147 pushes in 2 years 3 months
tgroh/beam
1 PR, 5212 pushes, 1449 branches in 2 years 3 months
GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK
191 commits, 86 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Top skills
Score
google-cloud-tools
10
apache-beam
10
streaming-data
10

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20

Senior Cloud Advocate Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
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France
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/beam
240 reviews, 1196 commits, 1016 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Talend/beam-samples
201 commits, 7 PRs, 95 pushes in 5 years 1 month
apache/avro
3 releases, 110 reviews, 146 commits in 4 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
ai
10
obs
10
obs-studio
10

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