Grant Henke
Senior Vice President Of Engineering at The Apache Software Foundation
Greater Milwaukee United States
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Top SchoolGrant Henke is a Senior Vice President of Engineering with 12 years of experience building scalable web and big-data platforms, currently leading engineering at phData from Greater Milwaukee. He excels at turning complex, tedious problems into simple, fast and enjoyable solutions, blending hands-on backend, web application and Big Data expertise. An active Apache committer and PMC member for Kudu and Kafka, he has contributed to NiFi, Impala and Scalding—work that ranges from concurrency fixes and schema-drift handling to enabling multi-arch Docker builds (including ARM). His tenure at Cloudera and Kohl’s includes designing large-scale data platforms and production ML/statistical pipelines. Fast to learn new stacks and teams, he pairs executive leadership with practical, test-backed engineering and DevOps craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, 3.52, B.S., Computer Science, 3.52 at University of Wisconsin-Platteville
English, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
debugging10
debug10
dockerce10
docker10
apache-nifi10
cascading10
data-pipelines10
back-end-development10
testing10
dockers10
java10
scala210
scala10
javas10
ci-cd10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kudu
May 2017 - Jun 2021
Mirror of Apache Kudu
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 158 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Grant's commits primarily focus on improving the Docker build process for the Apache Kudu project. They made significant changes to the `docker-build.py` script, including generating all tags in a single build command and adding support for building and pushing multi-arch images, specifically ARM and multi-arch Docker images. Additionally, the user modified the build process to include UBI-based runtime images for CentOS builds.
kuduapachebig-datajavaapache-kudu
apache/kafka
Apr 2015 - Nov 2019
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:120 commits, 139 PRs, 855 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Grant contributed to the Apache Kafka project by implementing features related to compression and addressing various issues in the code. Their commits include modifications to the `RecordAccumulatorTest`, `RecordAccumulator.java`, and `SenderTest.java` files, indicating involvement in the producer and client components. They also fixed hardcoded strings and other minor issues.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
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