Alex Diachenko
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Brea, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Diachenko is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening distributed systems, currently focused at Superblocks in Brea, California. He has deep Kafka and connector expertise from four years at Confluent and sustained Apache contributions—fixing Connect REST API issues, improving test infrastructure, and enhancing HDFS and Elasticsearch connectors for resilience and multi-partition recovery. Equally comfortable in DevOps and backend roles, he has contributed Docker image integrations (including Kafka MQTT proxy docs) and pragmatic security/config fixes across large open-source projects. A longtime Apache committer and former Pivotal staff engineer, he blends production-grade engineering with cross-team leadership and a background in applied physics and advanced software systems from Stanford.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Applied physics, Master, Applied physics at Dnipropetrovs'kij Nacional'nij UniversitetAdvanced Software Systems Graduate Certificate, Computer Science, Advanced Software Systems Graduate Certificate, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (35)
kafka-connect10
docker10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
configuration-management10
kafka10
hdfs10
hadoop10
dockers10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Apache Kafka - A distributed event streaming platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 11 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Apache Kafka project by addressing issues related to the Connect REST API and its testing framework. They disabled WADL output in the Connect REST API to prevent unintended exposure. Additionally, they updated the test setup to use httpcomponents-client for better handling of CORS-related headers and fixed a bug related to handling of numbers in the parsing logic. The user also improved the project's testing infrastructure by introducing a fix to the ConnectDistributedTest for failures.
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confluentinc/kafka-connect-elasticsearch
Apr 2018 - Nov 2021
Kafka Connect Elasticsearch connector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 reviews, 34 commits, 26 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Kafka Connect Elasticsearch connector by fixing minor issues and merging branches. Their work involved correcting typos in documentation, addressing checkstyle errors in Java code, and merging code changes from other branches. They also worked on the implementation of the security features with the addition of security protocol configuration options. This indicates that the user was involved in general maintenance and bug fixing, code refactoring and enhancement of the connector's codebase.
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