Chris Lohfink
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolChris Lohfink is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years’ experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently contributing at Netflix and serving as an Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. His background spans deep operational expertise—capacity planning, performance tuning, incident response—and full-stack tooling development across companies like Apple, DataStax, and Digi, with a specialty in Cassandra at massive scale. He blends hands-on debugging and automation with cross-functional collaboration, having supported infrastructures that serve hundreds of millions of users daily. Based in Rochester, MN, he pairs enterprise-grade reliability work with open-source stewardship, bringing practical insights from both commercial and community-driven projects.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Winona State University
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Github Skills (56)
cassandra10
datastax10
apache10
recovery10
java10
osgi10
sling10
database10
nosql9
parsing9
ace-editor9
ace9
hashing-algorithm9
backup9
code-editor8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
clohfink/cassandra
Jan 2016 - Feb 2025
Mirror of Apache Cassandra (incubating)
Contributions:11 PRs, 253 pushes, 49 branches in 9 years 1 month
incubatingcassandraapachescalaapache-cassandra
clohfink/RendezvousHash
Jan 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
hashinghrwhashing-algorithmrendezvous
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