Caleb Rackliffe
Apache Cassandra PMC at Apple
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolCaleb Rackliffe is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years focused on high-performance distributed systems, storage, and search, currently serving on the Apache Cassandra PMC and engineering Cassandra at Apple. He has led teams and shipped indexing and stream-processing features at DataStax and built low-latency Cassandra-backed systems for ad tech and eCommerce, plus archival and time-series solutions for mortgage and financial firms. Skilled in Java, concurrency, data structures, Lucene, and distributed databases, he thrives on turning complex performance problems into reliable, production-grade systems. His background spans startup hustle to large-scale enterprise and hedge-fund engineering, giving him a pragmatic blend of product sensitivity and deep systems rigor. Based in Nashville, he enjoys the satisfaction of empowering organizations—from medical imaging centers to the world’s largest hedge fund—to achieve measurable leverage. Notably, his path combines core open-source stewardship of Cassandra with hands-on cloud infrastructure work at Apple, a mix that keeps both community and production needs in balance.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Biola UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
cassandra10
apache10
java10
osgi10
sling10
database10
backend9
lucene8
kafka8
solr8
search-engine7
information-retrieval7
elasticsearch6
cql6
printing6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
maedhroz/cassandra
Feb 2016 - Apr 2025
Mirror of Apache Cassandra
Contributions:609 reviews, 9 PRs, 889 pushes in 9 years 2 months
cassandraapacheslingdatabaseapache-cassandra
maedhroz/lucene-solr
Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
solrapachelucenejavaapache-lucene
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