David Sloan
Federal Lead Support Engineer at HCLSoftware
Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Sloan is a Federal Lead Support Engineer with 8 years in his current professional track record and over two decades automating infrastructure, deployments, and operations across major enterprises including IBM, Silicon Valley Bank, and The Coca-Cola Company. He excels at breaking complex systems into manageable parts and driving practical automation—often bridging engineering and operations to operationalize new cloud technologies and governance for large banks. A hands-on problem solver, he has contributed to open-source Kafka connector work (supporting formats like Avro, Parquet, CSV and S3 sinks), demonstrating a knack for backend integration and data-format interoperability. Known for learning quickly to exploit new tools, he brings both analytical rigor and creative solutions to federal and enterprise-scale reliability challenges.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Apprenticeship, Mechanical Engineering, Apprenticeship, Mechanical Engineering at Henry Ford CollegeHigh School, High School at Camp Verde High School
Github Skills (11)
aws-s310
javas10
kafka-connect10
back-end-development10
java10
csv9
parquet9
json9
avro9
kafka8
testing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lensesio/stream-reactor
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
A collection of Kafka Connect sinks and sources maintained by Lenses.io.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 359 reviews, 48 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the development of an AWS S3 Kafka Connect sink connector. Their work involved implementing support for various data formats such as Json, Avro, Parquet, CSV, Bytes, and Text. The user addressed several bug fixes, including those related to ensuring unique client IDs. Additionally, the user contributed to the addition of functionalities like processing duplicates, and the implementation of connection pool size configurations.
kafka-connectkafkaconnectorcassandraelasticsearch
lensesio/secret-provider
Aug 2021 - Jun 2024
Open Source Secret Provider plugin for the Kafka Connect framework
Contributions:17 reviews, 28 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 10 months
kafka-connectkafkasecrets-management
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