Danica Fine
Apache Polaris Committer at Project Jupyter
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDanica Fine is an open source-focused software engineering leader with nine years of experience building data infrastructure and developer ecosystems from Bloomberg to Confluent and Snowflake. Based in San Francisco, she blends hands-on engineering in streaming systems (Kafka, KStreams, Flink) with developer advocacy, community strategy, and program leadership—now serving as an Apache Polaris committer and member while sitting on the Jupyter Foundation governing board. At Snowflake she launched the company's first OSS developer advocacy function, crafting developer-first content and growing communities around Apache Iceberg and Polaris. Her background in scientific computing and data-heavy roles gives her a knack for turning complex pipelines and equations into reliable, usable open-source tools and developer experiences. She’s known for chairing conference program committees and translating deep technical topics into engaging content that meets developers where they are.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.), Scientific Computing, Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.), Scientific Computing at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish, German
Github Skills (39)
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
kafka-consumer10
kafka-streams9
sasl9
connect9
ksqldb9
confluent-platform8
confluent-cloud8
sink8
cdc8
confluent8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
danicafine/kafka
May 2023 - Aug 2024
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
danicafine/qconsf-python
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
QCon SF Python Client Code
Contributions:3 reviews, 19 commits, 5 PRs in 9 days
client-codepythonpython-client
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