Top Software Engineers in

Distributed Data Systems and Analytics Technology

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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
20 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/cassandra
Cassandra: 6505 commits in 7 years 5 months
jbellis/cassandra
Cassandra: 592 commits in 8 years 4 months
scylladb/scylla-cqlsh
Scylla-cqlsh: 40 commits in 3 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
java
10
database
10
cassandra
10

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2

Software Engineer at Confluent Inc., Apache Kafka Committer
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United States
Rock Star
17 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
Kafka: 1034 commits in 7 years 8 months
abbccdda/kafka
Kafka: 87 commits in 2 years 3 months
confluentinc/kafka
Kafka: 67 commits in 6 years
Top skills
Score
kafka
10
scala
10
apache-kafka
2

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3

Co-creator of Presto and Trino, CTO at Starburst Data
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United States
Rock Star
21 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
prestodb/presto
Presto: 2293 commits in 6 years 4 months
miniway/presto
Presto: 939 commits in 3 years 10 months
airlift/airlift
Airlift: 915 commits in 10 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
presto
10
sql
10
big-data
10

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4

Senior Principal Engineer at Confluent
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United States
Rock Star
19 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
Kafka: 964 commits in 7 years 11 months
ijuma/kafka
Kafka: 321 commits in 7 years 3 months
voldemort/voldemort
Voldemort: 223 commits in 2 years 9 months
Top skills
Score
scala
10
kafka
10
java
3

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5

Seasoned Cloud Engineer. Scrappy Hacker. Ph.D. in Programming Language Theory. at The Apache Software Foundation
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United States
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/beam
Beam: 2760 commits in 6 years 11 months
dimagi/commcare-hq
Commcare-hq: 455 commits in 10 months
GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK
DataflowJavaSDK: 275 commits in 3 years
Top skills
Score
python
10
big-data
10
beam
10

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6

Software Engineer at Datastax
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France
Rock Star
20 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/cassandra
Cassandra: 2834 commits in 10 years 5 months
apache/cassandra-java-driver
Cassandra-java-driver: 700 commits in 2 years 1 months
pcmanus/cassandra
Cassandra: 682 commits in 8 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
cassandra
10
database
10
java
10

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7

Software Engineer | Apache Committer and PMC member (Kafka, Flink, Storm) at Confluent
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United States
Rock Star
16 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
Kafka: 767 commits in 6 years 10 months
confluentinc/kafka-streams-examples
Kafka-streams-examples: 630 commits in 4 years 10 months
confluentinc/ksql
Ksql: 132 commits in 4 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
scala
10
kafka
10
java
3

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8

Lord of Escalations at DataStax
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United States
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/cassandra
Cassandra: 2634 commits in 12 years 9 months
driftx/cassandra
Cassandra: 543 commits in 10 years 10 months
riptano/brisk
Brisk: 144 commits in 2 months
Top skills
Score
cassandra
10
database
10
java
10

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9

Data Systems Researcher and Developer, Investor, Advisor at Myself
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United States
Rock Star
17 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
Kafka: 712 commits in 7 years 9 months
guozhangwang/kafka
Kafka: 586 commits in 7 years 4 months
confluentinc/ksql
Ksql: 332 commits in 4 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
kafka
10
scala
10
java
2

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10

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United States
Rock Star
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
cython/cython
Cython: 2729 commits in 15 years 11 months
apache/beam
Beam: 2350 commits in 7 years
jasongrout/sagecell
Sagecell: 918 commits in 7 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
python
10
big-data
10
beam
8

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11

Co-creator of Trino and Presto, CTO at Starburst Data
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United States
Rock Star
23 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
prestodb/presto
Presto: 1652 commits in 6 years
apache/openejb
Openejb: 1417 commits in 5 years
airlift/airlift
Airlift: 1037 commits in 10 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
java
10
sql
10
big-data
10

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12

Software Engineer at Confluent
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
25 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
Kafka: 589 commits in 7 years 9 months
abbccdda/kafka
Kafka: 164 commits in 1 year 9 months
reactor/reactor-kafka
Reactor-kafka: 90 commits in 1 year 2 months
Top skills
Score
kafka
10
scala
10
java
3

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13

Exploring streaming tech. area at Databricks
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Korea, Republic of
Rock Star
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/storm
Storm: 2422 commits in 4 years 11 months
HeartSaVioR/spark
Spark: 794 commits in 7 years 2 months
redis/jedis
Jedis: 405 commits in 3 years 1 months
Top skills
Score
apache
10
streaming
10
distributed
10

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14

Staff Software Engineer at dYdX
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United States
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/beam
Beam: 1739 commits in 7 years
lukecwik/incubator-beam
Incubator-beam: 338 commits in 5 years 4 months
GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK
DataflowJavaSDK: 234 commits in 3 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
java
10
python
10
big-data
10

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15

Software Engineer at Apple
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/cassandra
Cassandra: 1730 commits in 10 years 1 months
iamaleksey/cassandra
Cassandra: 527 commits in 6 years 1 months
scylladb/scylla-cqlsh
Scylla-cqlsh: 199 commits in 5 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
java
10
database
10
cassandra
10

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16

Head of Compute at OpenAI
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United States
Rock Star
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
prestodb/presto
Presto: 1057 commits in 3 years 7 months
cberner/redb
Redb: 721 commits in 4 years 4 months
fleetfs/fleetfs
Fleetfs: 558 commits in 4 years
Top skills
Score
java
10
big-data
10
sql
10

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17

Senior Software Engineering Manager at Google
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United States
Rock Star
21 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/beam
Beam: 1474 commits in 6 years 11 months
apache/beam-site
Beam-site: 102 commits in 5 years 2 months
GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowPythonSDK
DataflowPythonSDK: 37 commits in 1 year 3 months
Top skills
Score
python
10
java
10
big-data
10

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18

Principal Engineer at Confluent
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United States
Rock Star
19 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ceph/ceph
Ceph: 1392 commits in 1 year
cmccabe/redfish
Redfish: 668 commits in 1 year 6 months
cloudera/hadoop-common.old
Hadoop-common.old: 617 commits in 1 year 2 months
Top skills
Score
kafka
10
scala
10
java
3

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19

Founding Engineer at Responsive & PMC member/committer on Apache Kafka
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United States
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/kafka
Kafka: 423 commits in 3 years 11 months
confluentinc/kafka-streams-examples
Kafka-streams-examples: 182 commits in 2 years 2 months
confluentinc/ksql
Ksql: 40 commits in 1 year 10 months
Top skills
Score
kafka
10
scala
10
apache
2

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20

Employed at Google.com
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
apache/beam
Beam: 1266 commits in 2 years 3 months
GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK
DataflowJavaSDK: 191 commits in 2 years 9 months
jbonofre/beam
Beam: 49 commits in 4 months
Top skills
Score
streaming
10
java
10
beam
10

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