Bob Nettleton
Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudera
Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolBob Nettleton is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12+ years in big data and cloud engineering, currently leading teams at Cloudera from Haddonfield, NJ. He combines deep systems-level expertise—from early embedded and C++ work at Lockheed Martin to designing Java EE and OSGi integrations at Oracle—with modern cloud-native leadership. At Hortonworks and Cloudera he progressed from principal engineer to senior manager, driving reliability and delivery across Hadoop-era and cloud platforms. An active contributor to Apache Ambari, he has hands-on experience fixing critical cluster-creation bugs and improving blueprint configuration processing for a widely used Hadoop management project. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who pairs historical protocol-level knowledge with contemporary distributed systems practices. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Rutgers–Camden and brings rare institutional memory that helps bridge legacy enterprise stacks and modern cloud architectures.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Rutgers University - Camden
Github Skills (5)
javas10
configuration-management10
java10
hadoop9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ambari
Aug 2014 - Jun 2018
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:156 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the codebase. They addressed issues related to null pointer exceptions during cluster creation, dependency management, and configuration processing, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's internals. Their work involved modifying Java test code, enhancing the blueprint configuration processor, and resolving hostname masking issues. They also contributed to the overall stability and maintainability of the Apache Ambari project.
provisioningpythonclustersjavascriptapache
rnettleton/ambari
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
Mirror of Apache Ambari
Contributions:161 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
javaambariapache
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