Daniel Weeks
Member Of Technical Staff at The Apache Software Foundation
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Weeks is a seasoned distributed-systems engineer and startup CTO focused on the next generation of cloud-native data warehousing. As co-founder of Tabular and a core co-creator and PMC member of Apache Iceberg (with notable contributions to S3 integration and file I/O), he blends hands-on backend development with product and engineering leadership. Previously he led Netflix’s Big Data Compute team, driving performance and scale for Spark, Presto, Druid and other engines in production at massive scale. Now at Databricks, he continues to bridge open-source ecosystems and commercial platforms, applying 15+ years of experience building large-scale, cloud-first data infrastructure. Notably, his background spans both research-driven R&D and practical operationalizing of open-source storage and compute primitives.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (8)
javas10
aws10
amazon-web-services10
back-end-development10
java10
cloud-storage10
apache-iceberg10
fileio9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/iceberg
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1446 reviews, 26 commits, 286 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the core functionality of Apache Iceberg by implementing features related to file appenders and partition fields within the Pig integration. Their work involved adding the ability to determine the length of a file during the write process and fixing issues related to the ordering of Pig partition fields. Furthermore, they worked on scoping configuration to specific LOAD operations using signatures. The user also made significant contributions to the AWS integration of Iceberg by adding AWS subproject and initial S3FileIO implementation.
apache-icebergicebergapache
Netflix/inviso
Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 21 comments in 3 years
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