Eric Schwartz
Senior Data Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Schwartz is a senior data engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building resilient backend and data systems using Python, C/C++ and Java. He has scaled production Spark backends and test infrastructure for Mapbox’s tiling service and now drives data engineering at ResearchGate. His background on Yahoo’s Edge Network and contributions to Apache Traffic Server reveal deep expertise in low-level networking, caching proxies and incident response. He’s particularly focused on infrastructure and systems thinking—both technical and human—and on understanding why things fail to make them more robust. A Columbia CS graduate, he blends academic research experience with hands-on open-source contributions, including protocol testing and SSL wiretracing work. Known for improving restart mechanisms and pragmatic postmortems, he favors observable, testable systems over brittle complexity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
English, German
Github Skills (15)
http10
proxy10
c-language10
ssl10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
caching9
apache9
devops9
disk-cache9
object-cache9
web-cache9
memory-cache9
go9
cdn9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Oct 2014 - Aug 2019
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 38 PRs, 85 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and testing of the Apache Traffic Server project. Their commits focused on improving the Traffic Manager's restart mechanism using exponential backoff, enhancing the header rewrite plugin with the TRANSACT-COUNT condition, and replacing address variables. They also introduced new tests for SPDY protocol selection and added wiretracing for SSL connections.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
ericcarlschwartz/trafficserver
Jul 2015 - Oct 2019
Fork of Mirror of Apache Traffic Server ->
Contributions:54 pushes, 26 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 3 months
javahttpdapachetraffic
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