Chris Gerken
Principal at Gerken Intellectual Properties LLC
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolChris Gerken is a Principal software engineer with over 12 years focused on Big Data architectures and more than three decades of overall engineering experience, specializing in low-latency, scalable ingestion pipelines, streaming analytics and model-driven tooling. He designs and builds production Flink/Storm topologies, Kafka persistence layers, Hadoop workflows and NoSQL integrations across travel, finance, health, IoT and energy domains, and has repeatedly shrunk development cycles with code-generation tooling. As founder of Gerken Intellectual Properties he delivered open-source generators that produce up to 95% of Hadoop, Cassandra, Storm, Elasticsearch and Kafka application code and visual workflow documentation, accelerating map-reduce development from months to days. Chris blends deep Java and Eclipse tooling expertise with a patterns-first approach to architecture, mentoring teams to apply repeatable best practices. Based in Valencia, Spain, he couples hands-on engineering with research and consulting, often creating bespoke developer platforms that bridge legacy systems and modern middleware. An unusual strength is his history of shipping both low-level runtime components and high-level model-driven generators, enabling both operational performance and developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences at Rice University
Stackoverflow
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apache-kafka
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hadoop
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java
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eclipse
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maven
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cassandra
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Github Skills (13)
eclipse10
apache-kafka10
hadoop10
java10
cassandra9
eclipse-plugin9
maven9
json-simple6
json6
mapreduce6
apache-storm6
constructor6
hector6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrisGerken/gramar
Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:87 commits, 81 pushes, 12 comments in 2 years 10 months
chrisGerken/transformAuthoring
Sep 2013 - Jan 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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