Abraham Fine
Staff Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAbraham Fine is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating scalable backend systems and infrastructure, currently based in Houston. He has driven platform migrations and reliability at companies like IFTTT—leading Mesos-to-Kubernetes and Jenkins-to-GitHub-CI transitions—and now shapes product and engineering direction at Tanium. An Apache committer and PMC member for projects such as Sqoop and ZooKeeper, he contributes practical improvements across open-source data tooling, including UI/UX enhancements for Cloudera’s Hue and security-focused connector work in Sqoop. His background blends deep distributed-systems expertise with hands-on infrastructure automation (AWS CDK, EMR on EKS, Prometheus/Grafana/Thanos) and a knack for reducing operational cost and toil. Collected from both startup and enterprise environments, his work surfaces in production-grade integrations and hardened testing practices that many users depend on daily. He pairs a CS degree from UIUC with a history of single-handedly owning critical platform migrations—an indicator of both technical breadth and delivery-focused leadership.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Regents Diploma, Regents Diploma at Lynbrook Senior High SchoolBachelor of Science Major: Computer Science Minor: Political Science, Bachelor of Science Major: Computer Science Minor: Political Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
oracles10
mysql10
oozie10
java10
javas10
uid10
oracle10
knockoutjs10
front-end-development10
hadoop9
user-interface9
python9
ui-design9
django9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/sqoop
Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
Mirror of Apache Sqoop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:323 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Abraham primarily contributed to the Apache Sqoop project by implementing integration tests, improving the Oracle connector, and enhancing password security. They addressed issues related to direct mode in the Oracle connector, ensuring integration tests functioned correctly. Furthermore, they integrated Hadoop CredentialProvider API for password encryption. The user also made improvements to the MySQL connector.
apachedatastreamsqoophadoopjava
cloudera/hue
Aug 2012 - Mar 2015
Open source SQL Query Assistant service for Databases/Warehouses
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1112 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Abraham primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the Hue application. They implemented new features, such as the ability to manage Oozie workflows from the front end and edit the names and descriptions. The user also addressed bugs, improved the UI/UX, and added features, such as supporting a separate log view for queries. Key areas of their work include modifying the database, the view models, and the UI for the Oozie workflows.
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