Albert Whitlock
Software Engineer at SAIC
Cockeysville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Whitlock is a software engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems with a strong focus on Java and Hadoop ecosystems. He has practical experience modernizing and hardening large open-source projects like Apache Accumulo—improving testing infrastructure, refactoring compaction coordination, and enhancing logging for production diagnostics. Across federal and defense contracts he has delivered features that streamline data export workflows, recover unprocessed files after GC, and add numerically-aware monitoring UIs, demonstrating attention to operational robustness. Comfortable across the stack, he brings hands-on skills in REST, AJAX, Terraform/AWS, and frontend tool upgrades (DataTables/Bootstrap) to keep legacy systems current. Based in Cockeysville, MD, he blends long-term problem-solving with iterative delivery in Agile environments and has a knack for finding pragmatic fixes that reduce post-processing and operational toil.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's of Science Computer Information Systems at University of Maryland
Github Skills (9)
javas10
big-data10
junit10
accumulo10
java10
datatable9
datatables9
bootstra8
bootstrap8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/accumulo
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Apache Accumulo
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Albert contributed to improving the Accumulo project by enhancing logging messages and comments related to tablet overlap issues. They also migrated the Minicluster module to JUnit5, improving testing infrastructure and modernizing the project. Additionally, the user refactored the compaction coordinator module and updated the Accumulo shell with JUnit5. The user also upgraded bootstrap and datatables dependencies.
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AlbertWhitlock/accumulo
Nov 2021 - Sep 2023
Apache Accumulo
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 10 months
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