Brian Ghigiarelli
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
Crownsville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ghigiarelli is a pragmatic senior software engineer and reliability leader with over a decade of experience building production-grade systems for federal missions and commercial cloud platforms. He moves fluidly between roles—from hands-on backend development and SRE to architecture and team leadership—and is currently at Snowflake after leading Datavolo through acquisition. His background includes deep work on distributed systems, data pipelines, and DIL (disconnected, intermittent, limited) networking, and contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Apache NiFi (improving PutEmail and PutKafka processors with TLS, batching, compression, and validation). A Johns Hopkins MS in Computer Science complements his practical orientation toward choosing the right tool for the job and balancing “what can be done” with “what should be done.” Colleagues rely on him to translate mission needs into resilient, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Penn State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
kafka10
apache-nifi10
apache10
java10
smtps9
smtp9
smtpd9
compression8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/nifi
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Apache NiFi
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the Apache NiFi project by enhancing the PutEmail and PutKafka processors. They added functionality such as TLS support, HTML content type configuration, and asynchronous production capabilities with batching and compression for the PutEmail and PutKafka processors, respectively. The user also updated properties in the PutKafka to follow NiFi standards and added validation, improving the usability and functionality of these processors.
apache-nifinifijavaapache
bluehalo/akin
Nov 2016 - Feb 2019
Node.js Recommendation Engine based on Collaborative Filtering
Contributions:43 commits, 17 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years 3 months
collaborative-filteringnodejsrecommendation-engine
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