Eric Bowden
Senior Java Developer at Adaptive
Hinsdale, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEric Bowden is a Senior Java Developer with 11 years of experience building ultra-low-latency, high-throughput event-driven messaging systems, ACID-compliant distributed databases, and robust backend APIs. He has driven architecture and implementation work across messaging and data platforms—improving Java client throughput by orders of magnitude, designing strong lease-based replication for a horizontally scalable database, and hardening messaging stacks through fuzz testing and TLS improvements. Comfortable at the intersection of correctness, security, maintainability, and performance, he has led efforts to integrate Kafka and Pulsar into commercial offerings and created tooling like an EMS Go client and OpenAPI-based management services. Based in Hinsdale, Illinois, Eric combines deep systems-level expertise (C, Java, Go, .NET) with practical product-facing engineering and on-site customer guidance. A pragmatist who favors measurable improvements, he’s as likely to optimize IO selectors or memory transports as he is to standardize CI/performance tracking for long-term reliability.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignIllinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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wcf
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Github Skills (56)
udp10
messaging10
transport10
unicast10
laravel10
ipc10
networking10
java10
tcp10
multicast10
network10
elearning9
crm9
php9
wcf9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
strangelydim/Aeron
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 3 PRs, 133 pushes in 1 day
unicastreliablemessage-transporttransportmessage
rlankenau/test_repo
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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