Daniel Jatnieks
Core Database Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Jatnieks is a seasoned core database software engineer with 13+ years focused on distributed databases and cloud database development, currently working on Cassandra and Astra at IBM after a long tenure at DataStax. He brings deep expertise in data warehousing, RDBMS design, ETL, and performance tuning across Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and NoSQL systems, coupling architecture-level thinking with hands-on implementation. Daniel has a track record of leading complex platform projects—from a model-driven data warehouse at EMC to developer tools like DataStax Studio and DevCenter—while retaining strong low-level skills in JDBC, Java, C++ and database internals. Based in San Jose, he blends enterprise-scale system design with practical DBA automation and metadata-driven modeling approaches that reduce operational toil. His career spans startups and large enterprises and is notable for repeatedly translating diverse application models into robust, database-independent warehousing and cloud-native solutions.
13 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Santa Clara UniversityMath Computer Science, Math Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Stackoverflow
734reputation
33kreached
24answers
3questions
cassandra
top-5%
Github Skills (30)
nosql10
cassandra10
localhost10
datastax10
apache10
java10
osgi10
sling10
singer10
database10
itil9
jdbc9
cassandra-cluster9
aws8
scala8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
djatnieks/scratch
May 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
djatnieks/cassandra
Apr 2023 - Sep 2023
Mirror of Apache Cassandra
Contributions:25 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
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