Ahmet Altay
Director Of Engineering at The Apache Software Foundation
Mountain View, California, United States
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Ahmet Altay is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building large-scale data analytics and cloud infrastructure, now directing Google Cloud’s open lakehouse and BigQuery Storage efforts from Mountain View. He has led Cloud Dataflow from core SDK work to a product that processes petabytes daily, growing organizations of 100+ engineers and launching Managed Flink and other production services. A long-time Apache Beam committer and PMC member, Ahmet’s hands-on contributions to the Beam Python SDK (dependency hardening, DirectRunner fixes, memory tests) underline a focus on stability, observability, and maintainability. He combines product sensibility—customer success, usability, and developer experience—with deep systems expertise dating back to distributed storage and secure embedded firmware. His background includes an MS from Stanford and an Executive MBA, reflecting a blend of technical depth and strategic business leadership. Less obvious: he’s driven open-source community initiatives (Beam Summit, Beam College, Beam Quest) that turn developer education into tangible product adoption.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent UniversityMS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (4)
dependency-management10
apache-beam10
python10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/beam
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:333 reviews, 1474 commits, 1409 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ahmet primarily worked on dependency management and code improvements within the Python SDK for Apache Beam, making targeted modifications to improve stability and functionality. Their contributions involved pinning and limiting the versions of dependencies, as well as fixing bugs in the DirectRunner to ensure proper execution of pipelines. Moreover, they added a test for memory consumption in the Direct runner. These changes showcase a focus on code quality and maintainability within the core Beam ecosystem.
golangpythonstreaming-databeambatch
conda-forge/apache-beam-feedstock
May 2019 - May 2024
A conda-smithy repository for apache-beam.
Contributions:1 review, 15 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 years
condabeamsmithyapacheapache-beam
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