Alex Holmes
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Holmes is a senior software engineer based in California with 14 years of experience solving large-scale distributed and big-data problems, currently building systems at Apple. He is the author of "Hadoop in Practice" and has a strong track record implementing Hadoop, MapReduce, data serialization (Avro, Protocol Buffers, Thrift), Pig examples, and SequenceFile SerDe code used to teach and demonstrate production patterns. Previously a technical lead at VeriSign, he designed internet crawl, analysis and search systems and led Hadoop adoption for large-scale classification workloads. A frequent speaker and blogger (grepalex.com), Alex combines hands-on backend engineering with a knack for turning complex distributed concepts into practical, example-driven code that has been reused by the Hadoop community.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hons), Software Engineering, B.Sc. (Hons), Software Engineering at University of the West of Scotland
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Github Skills (11)
serialization10
javas10
hadoop-mapreduce10
data-serialization10
mapreduce10
hadoop10
java10
avro9
apache-pig8
protocol-buffers8
thrift8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexholmes/hadoop-book
Oct 2011 - Jul 2015
Source code to accompany the book "Hadoop in Practice", published by Manning.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the source code for the "Hadoop in Practice" book, focusing on examples demonstrating Hadoop's capabilities. Contributions include Java code for configuration comparison, Inverted Index MapReduce, and examples involving Avro, Protocol Buffers, and Thrift for data serialization and processing. They also worked on Pig examples and a SerDe implementation for SequenceFiles. The user's work primarily centered on implementing and demonstrating core Hadoop-related technologies and concepts.
hadoop
alexholmes/vagrant-hadoop-spark-hive
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Vagrant project to spin up a single virtual machine running current versions of Hadoop, Hive and Spark
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 12 pushes in 6 months
hadoophivesparkvagrantvirtual-machine
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