Adam Anthony
Data Scientist
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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RockstarAdam Anthony is a Director of Engineering with nine years of industry experience and a PhD in computer science, combining deep technical chops with multi-team leadership across cloud platform, data backend, and visualization domains. He has led engineering at companies including Replicated, Redpanda, Paragon, Rerun, and InfluxData, shepherding teams that delivered query execution, deployment automation, and real-time metrics platforms. A hands-on former core InfluxDB contributor, he has shipped backend features and tests for high-profile open-source projects such as InfluxDB, Kapacitor, and Flux, demonstrating production-grade Go expertise and a product-driven approach to data systems. Known for building and scaling cross-functional teams, he bridges research-level rigor with pragmatic product sensibilities, often surfacing performance and observability improvements that directly impact customers. Based in Cleveland, he brings a mix of academic depth and startup grit, with early career work in graph analytics and teaching that informs his mentorship and system design perspectives.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
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back-end-development9
data-parsing9
time-series9
databases9
kapacitor9
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influxdb9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/flux
May 2018 - Jan 2022
Flux is a lightweight scripting language for querying databases (like InfluxDB) and working with data. It's part of InfluxDB 1.7 and 2.0, but can be run independently of those.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 126 commits, 157 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam focused on enhancing the functionality of the `influxdata/flux` repository by implementing and improving the `fromCSV` function, enabling it to read data from external files and validating input parameters. They also worked on improving the query performance by enforcing a fixed ordering on results iterators within the `partition_lookup.Range()` function. Furthermore, the user contributed to the testing framework by adding test improvements to assist in the generation of outputs, including generating output for influxql, and adding a batch of tests.
databasedatabasesinfluxdbscripting-language
influxdata/influxdb
Jun 2017 - Jun 2020
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:143 commits, 99 PRs, 246 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the collectd service within the InfluxDB project. Their work focused on extending the functionality of the collectd service by incorporating new features, such as grouping collectd statistics into a single measurement and adding the ability to batch points based on size and duration. They also wrote several tests to verify the service's behavior.
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