Brandon Groves
Principal Software Engineer at Voloridge Investment Management, LLC
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Groves is a Principal Software Engineer in Orlando with 13 years of experience building robust backend systems and full-stack features across finance, observability, and big data domains. He currently drives engineering at Voloridge after senior roles at Harness/OverOps and a multi-year tenure at Hitachi Vantara working on the Pentaho platform. His open-source contributions to Pentaho projects show hands-on expertise in Java, ETL, Kafka integration, and front-end polish—ranging from refactoring streaming consumers to adding UI animations and export capabilities. Comfortable in both low-level data plumbing and user-facing fixes, he often improves test coverage and reliability as part of his workflow. Brandon pairs an MS in Modeling and Simulation with practical experience building data ingestion and ETL pipelines for high-throughput systems. A detail-oriented engineer, he brings a track record of turning complex integration challenges into maintainable, well-tested solutions.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Modeling and Simulation, Master of Science (M.S.) Modeling and Simulation at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (24)
pentaho10
debug10
data-pipelines10
kafka10
java10
etl10
javas10
streaming-api10
code-coverage10
apache-kafka10
data-pipeline10
testing9
unit-testing9
css9
junit9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pentaho/pentaho-kettle
Jul 2015 - Jan 2020
Pentaho Data Integration ( ETL ) a.k.a Kettle
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 105 PRs, 55 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the Pentaho Data Integration (ETL) project, focusing on fixing bugs and increasing code coverage. Their work included resolving issues related to the save button functionality in the Agile BI modeler and analyzer, specifically addressing dialog opening and button dithering problems. They also made changes to increase code coverage by adding tests to the ZipFileMetaTest and ValueDataUtilTest classes and updating code in Spoon.java. These contributions indicate a focus on improving the functionality and reliability of the core ETL engine.
pentaho-data-integrationetldata-integrationkettlepentaho
pentaho/big-data-plugin
Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
Kettle plugin that provides support for interacting within many "big data" projects including Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, and others.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:73 commits, 93 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the Kafka plugin, implementing and modifying features related to data ingestion and processing from Kafka topics. Their work included setting up data dependencies for execution, storing named clusters, adding options for running duration timeouts, and refactoring the consumer to use a new streaming API. The commits show a strong focus on integrating Kafka with Pentaho's big data plugin, and improving its capabilities.
operationhadoop-hivefeature-storehive-hbasemongodb
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