Adam Shook
Founder And Principal Consultant at Datacatessen
Ilchester, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Shook is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Datacatessen with 13 years of experience designing and shipping large-scale real-time and batch data pipelines, storage, and search systems. He combines hands-on backend engineering — including significant open-source contributions to Trino/Presto and Apache Accumulo connectors and fixes — with product-focused architecture and CI/CD best practices. His background includes mission-critical Hadoop work for the U.S. Intelligence Community, authorship of MapReduce Design Patterns, and teaching Hadoop-based distributed computing at UMBC. Known for improving robustness (immutable core classes, thread-safety fixes, replication timeouts) he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and performance for distributed systems. Based in Maryland, he mentors engineers and helps organizations translate complex analytic needs into maintainable, auditable architectures.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
sql-query10
acc10
data-set10
databases10
big-data10
distributed-systems10
java10
data-model10
javas10
sql10
user-data10
query-engine10
presto10
accumulo10
replication10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/accumulo
Aug 2016 - Apr 2019
Apache Accumulo
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 12 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability of the Apache Accumulo project. Their contributions involved addressing issues related to the garbage collection process, specifically fixing state management within the `firstSeenDead` map. The user also implemented a timeout mechanism for replication RPC calls to address potential task stalls. These changes enhance the robustness and performance of the data replication and garbage collection features.
javaaccumuloapachebig-data
prestodb/presto
Apr 2016 - Aug 2020
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 32 PRs, 166 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Presto connector for Apache Accumulo. Their work included adding a new connector, implementing Accumulo-specific features, and integrating it into the Presto ecosystem. They also refactored and updated existing code, including making core classes immutable and fixing date conversions, demonstrating a focus on improving the connector's functionality and efficiency. In addition to the code, they also added documentation, and fixed thread safety issues.
distributed-sqlquerybigdataquery-enginesql
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