Elliot West
Staff Engineer at Dremio
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolElliot West is a Staff Engineer with 15 years of experience building self-service, federated data and streaming platforms that turn complex distributed systems into low-friction customer services. He has a track record of turning immature technologies into production-ready offerings—from federating heterogeneous data lakes and making Kafka feel server-less to driving Pulsar metadata scalability for millions of topics. A practical architect and hands-on engineer, Elliot has led cross-cloud, multi-tenant stream platform designs and shipped tools like a SQL test-coverage evaluator and data-replication and federation systems widely adopted at Hotels.com and Expedia. He is an active contributor to prominent open-source projects such as Apache Pulsar and Confluent Schema Registry, focusing on robust backend improvements and compatibility evolutions. Based in London, he combines deep systems-level knowledge with a knack for challenging assumptions to deliver simpler, more capable developer experiences.
15 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
English, Catalan, Spanish
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Github Skills (57)
interface-builder10
avro10
develop10
messaging10
kafka10
cross-platform10
deb10
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javas10
maven10
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apache-pulsar10
schema10
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ant10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openmessaging/benchmark
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
OpenMessaging Benchmark Framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 37 commits, 41 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily contributed to improving and expanding the OpenMessaging Benchmark framework. Their work involved consolidating project dependencies, which included cleaning up project object models (POMs) and removing unnecessary relative paths. They also implemented new features, such as a command-line utility for generating workloads, and enhanced existing functionality by exposing setters for improved configurability. Further contributions included regularizing license headers, enabling spotbugs analysis, and ensuring resource creation resilience.
natsbenchmarkingpulsarbenchmark-frameworkbenchmark
tcurdt/jdeb
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
This library provides an Ant task and a Maven plugin to create Debian packages from Java builds in a truly cross platform manner.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily contributed to the back-end of the jdeb project by adding new functionalities and addressing existing issues within the Java-based Debian package creation library. Their work involved modifying Maven and Ant-related data processing classes, adding options to handle missing source files, and implementing features such as file renaming within data sets. The user also refactored code to enhance the robustness of the control package generation, demonstrating a focus on improving the core functionality and flexibility of the Debian package creation process.
maven-plugindebian-packagesmavenbuildsant-task
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