Andrew Egelhofer
Staff Software Enginner Engineering Manager II at Confluent
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Egelhofer is a Staff Software Engineer and Engineering Manager with 11 years building and operating Unix-first infrastructure, release automation, and cloud-native telemetry at scale. Based in Seattle, he blends hands-on systems development (Linux, Python, configuration management, release engineering) with people leadership, mentoring a six-person team while shipping cross-team platform improvements. At Confluent he drove observability and cost-efficiency projects—migrating from DataDog to OpenTelemetry/AMP, implementing keeplist processing, and enforcing policy-as-code with OPA and Cloud Custodian. His open-source contributions show deep Kafka ecosystem expertise, including substantive work on Confluent’s Kafka Connect S3 connector, Schema Registry, and Docker image docs. Comfortable across build systems, CI/CD, and multi-cloud deployments, he has a knack for reducing operational cost and complexity (including a previous project that saved millions in monitoring spend). Outside of work he’s a self-described Linux hacker and lego builder, reflecting a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to engineering.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Algorithms Graphics, B.S. Computer Science Algorithms Graphics at San José State UniversityGeneral Education Computer Science, General Education Computer Science at Cabrillo College
Github Skills (57)
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docker10
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amazon-elasticsearch10
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configuration-management10
kafka10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/cp-ansible
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Ansible playbooks for the Confluent Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 209 commits, 52 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's commits focus on modifications to Ansible playbooks, specifically concerning Confluent Platform configurations for Kafka Connect, Control Center, and potentially KSQL. Contributions include changes to filter plugins and templates used for property generation and configuration, indicating a focus on automation and streamlining of deployment processes. Their work also encompasses modifications related to authentication and security protocols, such as OAuth, demonstrating a familiarity with Confluent Platform infrastructure and configuration management best practices. These changes are indicative of a role responsible for building infrastructure and automating the provisioning and configuration of Kafka-based services.
schema-registryksqlconfluent-cloudansiblerest-proxy
confluentinc/cp-docker-images
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
[DEPRECATED] Docker images for Confluent Platform.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 107 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to documentation updates and configuration examples within the Confluent Platform Docker images repository. Their work focused on refining the documentation, particularly the configuration reference guide, to reflect changes in the product versions and deployment methods. These documentation updates included examples of deployment settings and configurations, specifically related to Confluent's enterprise replicator and associated dependencies. This improved the clarity and usability of the deployment instructions for the Docker images.
kafka-streamsconfluent-clouddockerconfluent-platformdocker-images
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