Ethan Rose
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Rose is a software engineer based in Greater Boston with eight years of experience building scalable back-end systems, currently focused on Apache Ozone at Cloudera. He works on distributed storage concerns—consensus, consistency, performance, security, and user management—and serves as an Apache Ozone committer, contributing database and container operation improvements to a high-profile open-source project. His work includes concrete fixes around block metadata handling and implementing features like getExpiredOpenKeys, reflecting a strong attention to correctness in large distributed databases. A Rensselaer CS graduate, he has a history of shipping end-to-end tooling in C# and Python from internships and maintains an active GitHub presence documenting his open-source contributions.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (13)
javas10
database-management10
distributed-systems10
object-storage10
back-end-development10
java10
data-structure9
metadata-management9
data-structures9
big-data8
testing8
object-store8
hadoop8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ozone
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Scalable, reliable, distributed storage system optimized for data analytics and object store workloads.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1096 reviews, 62 commits, 200 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ethan's primary contributions revolve around enhancing the Apache Ozone distributed storage system. They addressed issues related to block metadata, ensuring proper inclusion of pending delete blocks in metadata values and database operations. They also implemented and tested new features, such as the `getExpiredOpenKeys` feature, and integrated the changes for the new schema version. They are responsible for modifications related to database, data structure and container operations.
scalableredundantapachebig-dataspark
errose28/ozone
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
Scalable, redundant, and distributed object store for Apache Hadoop
Contributions:2 PRs, 698 pushes, 174 branches in 4 years 9 months
scalableaccumuloredundantapachebig-data
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