Edward Berezitsky
Principal Streaming Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Berezitsky is a Principal Streaming Architect with 9 years of focused experience designing and implementing large-scale streaming platforms, currently leading streaming solutions and DR architectures at AWS for Amazon MSK and Apache Kafka. He combines deep hands-on backend engineering—demonstrated by contributions to the high-profile Apache NiFi project improving HBase integrations—with enterprise-grade architecture work across ProServe, Hortonworks, and Amdocs. Ed specializes in Kafka migrations, integrations, security, and operational tooling, and has a track record of automating deployments via CloudFormation and CDK. He brings performance-first thinking from earlier big data and Java performance roles, having designed solutions for trillion-record datasets and led performance teams. Based in Alpharetta, GA, he blends open-source credibility with pragmatic cloud-native practices to help teams move streaming systems from prototype to resilient production. A background in information systems engineering and long tenure across platform and consulting roles give him both depth in implementation and breadth in customer-driven architecture.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Information Systems Engineering, B.Sc., Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Russian
Github Skills (8)
javas10
hbase10
apache-nifi10
back-end-development10
java10
hdfs9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/nifi
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Apache NiFi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 17 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Edward primarily contributed to the Apache NiFi project by implementing and refactoring backend processors and related functionalities. They focused on improving existing HBase integration (FetchHBaseRow and ScanHBase), adding features like new processors and Atlas support. Furthermore, the user addressed various issues, including fixing log errors in scripting components and file not found fixes in file transfer processors. Their work involved changes to the core Java codebase, reflecting a focus on data processing and integration tasks.
javanifiapacheapache-nifi
awslabs/schema-manager
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 review, 12 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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