Alan Gates
Senior Staff Engineer at Datadog
Danville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Gates is a Senior Staff Engineer and seasoned technology leader with roughly 10 years of formal experience in senior roles and a multi-decade engineering career that helped shape Hadoop-era data platforms. As a Hortonworks co-founder and long-time Apache committer/PMC member, he has deep expertise in large-scale data systems and contributed notably to Apache Hive (including HPL/SQL and metastore improvements). He co-founded NexusData to tackle data quality diagnostics and now brings that systems-level, product-aware perspective to Datadog’s engineering organization. Based in Danville, CA, he combines hands-on backend development with governance experience from organizations like ODPi and the ASF, making him comfortable at the intersection of open source, architecture, and commercial productization. A mathematician by training who later studied theology, he brings both analytical rigor and a broader humanistic outlook to technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Theology, MA, Theology at Fuller Theological SeminaryBS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Oregon State University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
databases10
big-data10
sql10
apache-hive10
java10
database10
hadoop9
antlr9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hive
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
Apache Hive
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 35 PRs, 82 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alan contributed to the Apache Hive project, focusing on enhancing the HPL/SQL component and addressing code quality issues. Their work included adding functionality to UDFs, fixing syntax errors within the Hplsql.g4 grammar, and correcting errors in the ASF headers. Additionally, the user made changes to the metastore by moving the Warehouse class to standalone metastore and also updated the configuration.
flinksqlapachebig-dataspark
alanfgates/dtest
Apr 2018 - Dec 2019
Dockerized test runner
Contributions:103 pushes, 8 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 8 months
testingdockertest-runnerrunnerdockerized
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