Aldrin M
Founding Engineer at Bauplan
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAldrin M is a founding engineer and PhD candidate in computer science with a decade of hands-on experience building distributed systems, data management, and bioinformatics tooling. Trained at UC Santa Cruz under Peter Alvaro, he focuses on declarative programmable storage while bridging research and production through internships at Seagate and Voltron Data and contributions to Apache Arrow’s core compute and error-handling logic. Based in San Francisco, he has deep C++ and backend expertise and a history of shipping data infrastructure from academia to startups. Notably, his open-source work on Arrow improved robustness around Status handling and fixed subtle aggregation bugs—small fixes that materially improve large-scale analytics.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English
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Github Skills (6)
apache-arrow10
error-handling10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
parquet6
r6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apache/arrow
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Apache Arrow is the universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 7 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Aldrin primarily contributed to the Apache Arrow project by implementing and improving core functionalities. They focused on enhancing the `Status` class by adding a warning mechanism and refactoring code related to error handling within the project. Additionally, they addressed a bug in the `count_distinct` function, ensuring accurate merging of state. The user also made minor improvements to various parts of the codebase, including benchmarks and documentation.
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drin/containers
Jul 2019 - Dec 2024
Repository of dockerfiles and relevant scripts for base images, installing commonly used software, etc.
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 5 months
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