Addison Higham
Draper, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolAddison Higham is a seasoned software engineer and architect with 14 years of experience and a deep focus on microservices, distributed systems, big data, and cloud-native architectures. He has led platform and product-level engineering as Chief Architect at StreamNative and as a Software Architect at Instructure, shipping production-grade systems built on Flink, Spark, and Pulsar. A hands-on contributor to Apache Pulsar—working on tiered storage, AWS S3 integration, and Kinesis connectivity—he blends low-level optimization with operational engineering and developer enablement. Comfortable wearing many hats from IC to tech lead and devops, he enjoys transforming near-impossible problems into practical solutions while mentoring teams to adopt new skills. Based in Draper, Utah, he codes daily in Scala, Java, Go, Node.js and is actively exploring Rust to broaden his systems toolbox.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Brigham Young University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
amazon-kinesis10
kin10
java10
javas10
aws10
aws-s310
messaging9
mongoose9
pubsub9
event-streaming9
nodejs9
event-stream9
devops8
multiprocessing6
underscorejs6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pulsar
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 51 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Addison primarily contributed to the Apache Pulsar tiered storage feature, focusing on enhancements for AWS S3 integration. They added support for AWS instance and role credentials, enabling the use of EC2 metadata credentials and role assumption for accessing S3. Furthermore, the user modified credential handling within the S3 tiered storage implementation to improve performance and reliability by using a Supplier-based API to refresh credentials on every request. The user also worked on integrating with the Kinesis streaming service, including KCL V2 and authentication providers.
event-streamingpulsarmessaging-systemstreamingapache
streamnative/terraform-aws-managed-cloud
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
This repo contains terraform scripts that can be used to provision resources needed for StreamNative Managed Cloud
Contributions:9 releases, 3 reviews, 25 commits in 10 months
terraform-modulesprovisionamazon-web-servicesprovision-resourcesterraform
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