Andrés De La Peña
Software Engineer at DataStax
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrés De La Peña is a software engineer and Big Data specialist with 11 years’ experience designing and implementing distributed systems and search-driven databases. He led the design and development of Stratio Cassandra—adding Lucene-based secondary indexes and near-real-time full-text search—and has deep hands-on expertise with Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, ZooKeeper and Hazelcast. Now at DataStax, he combines product development and research experience to optimize large-scale data processing and storage, avoiding full data scans via Spark integrations. An active backend contributor to the well-known cassandra-lucene-index project, he’s skilled at upgrading core dependencies and refining index internals for production use. Based in England, he brings a research mindset to practical engineering, often bridging prototype R&D and customer-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering, Ingeniería de software, Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering, Ingeniería de software at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
lucene10
indexer10
indexing10
java9
javas9
cassandra-database8
cassandra8
big-data6
full-text-search6
php6
column-store6
nosql6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Stratio/cassandra-lucene-index
May 2015 - Feb 2017
Lucene based secondary indexes for Cassandra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 releases, 903 commits, 93 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrés's commits focus on upgrading the project's dependency on Lucene, specifically upgrading to version 5.3.0 and, later, 5.5.0. They also made changes to the codebase to improve its overall structure and the use of specific code and methods within the context of the project. The contributions involve core backend logic within the context of a database index project.
secondarycassandraindexesdatabaselucene
adelapena/cassandra
Mar 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 2217 pushes, 1590 branches in 7 years 7 months
cassandraosgiapacheslingdatabase
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