Chris Kellogg
Software Engineer at StarTree
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kellogg is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, distributed systems from the Bay Area, currently contributing at StarTree after roles at Splunk, Streamlio, and Twitter. He focuses on backend engineering for high-throughput messaging and stream-processing platforms, with notable open-source contributions to Apache Pulsar and Heron—fixing race conditions in the Go client, improving consumer/producer metadata, and enhancing UI and topology status in Heron. Comfortable working across Java, Go, Python, and JavaScript, he blends core protocol and client-side improvements to make systems both robust and operable. His dual BSE background in Computer Science and Industrial & Operations Engineering hints at a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to reliability and performance.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science, BSE Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
messaging10
python10
back-end-development10
pulsar10
queuing10
message-queue10
java10
javas10
heron10
go10
pubsub10
apache-pulsar10
concurrency10
ui-design9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pulsar-client-go
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
Apache Pulsar Go Client Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 147 reviews, 35 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving and fixing the Go client library for Apache Pulsar. They addressed data race conditions by modifying connection management code and adding synchronization primitives. Furthermore, the user improved message parsing, fixed message handling issues, and updated the protobuf file. They also contributed to improving the consumer code and added metadata to produce and subscribe commands.
golangevent-streamingpulsarclient-librarygo-client
apache/incubator-heron
Apr 2016 - Apr 2018
Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:91 commits, 119 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on enhancing the Heron UI, specifically adding functionality to dynamically render clusters and implement full-width navigation elements. Their contributions involved modifying Javascript code for the UI and Python code for backend handlers and access components. Furthermore, the user added a status feature to the all-topologies UI.
fault-tolerantrealtimedata-streamfaultstream
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