Brendan Lynch
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Inovalon
Greater Indianapolis United States
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Top SchoolBrendan Lynch is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native platform services and data movement systems. Currently Senior Director of Software Engineering at Inovalon, he has architected foundational platforms and led teams that turned manual runbooks into automated, distributed services processing petabytes weekly. Previously at Salesforce and Microsoft he designed resilient backup/restore and high-availability systems, led data migration automation that cut storage and downtime, and shipped cross-datacenter C# services for massive SQL workloads. Early career work at Pentaho and open-source contributions to Pentaho’s core and Kettle ETL projects show a pragmatic focus on test reliability, backend APIs, and documentation. Based in Greater Indianapolis, he combines deep systems-level C++ and C# experience with hands-on team building and a knack for turning operational pain points into robust, automated engineering products. An understated strength: he routinely surfaces and fixes brittle test and metadata issues that improve long-term platform stability.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
webservice10
java10
javas10
junit10
html10
rest-api10
data-access10
documentation10
test-automation10
database-testing9
gwt9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pentaho/pentaho-platform
Feb 2014 - Oct 2015
Pentaho BA Server Core
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:176 commits, 90 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily focused on fixing platform unit tests within the Pentaho BA Server Core repository. Their commits involved modifying test files to address issues preventing successful test execution. This included changes to the `AuditConnectionTest.java`, `AuditEntryTest.java`, `MockDataSourceService.java`, `PentahoSessionHolderTest.java`, and `GlobalListPublisherTest.java` files. The user also removed web service-related unit tests, indicating an effort to refine the testing focus toward underlying platform functionality.
server-corepentaho
pentaho/data-access
Apr 2014 - Oct 2015
Pentaho Data Access Wizard
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the back-end logic of the Pentaho Data Access Wizard. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to user permissions and the management of data sources, ensuring the correct display and functionality based on user roles. The user also worked on standardizing the encoding/decoding of web service calls and adding documentation for REST endpoints within the data-access project, reflecting improvements to the API and service layer. Additional contributions include fixing issues with metadata import and updating unit tests.
data-accesswizardpentaho
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