Eugene Koifman
Senior Principal Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) at The Apache Software Foundation
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolEugene Koifman is a senior principal software engineer specializing in distributed data processing, currently driving Apache Spark development for Workday Analytics. With 11+ years building production-grade data systems, he has deep open-source credentials as a long-time Apache Hive committer and PMC member and as an emeritus contributor to Apache ORC’s columnar storage design. He has led the creation of a federated SQL engine and brings a rare blend of hands-on implementation, practical research, and architecture for large-scale analytics. Based in Redwood City, he pairs a math/economics background and partial PhD work with a pragmatic focus on reliability, performance, and data-format efficiency that surfaces in both tooling and engine-level decisions.
11 years of coding experience
PhD Program in Mathematics - unfinished, PhD Program in Mathematics - unfinished at Northwestern UniversityBA, Mathematics, Economics, BA, Mathematics, Economics at Brandeis University
Github Skills (32)
apache-spark10
spark10
delta-lake10
apache-flink10
python10
architecture10
r10
storage10
big-data10
kafka10
hadoop10
apache10
jdbc10
analytics10
java10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ekoifman/spark
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Contributions:28 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 3 months
analyticsdata-processingapachebig-dataspark
ekoifman/delta
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
An open-source storage layer that brings scalable, ACID transactions to Apache Spark™ and big data workloads.
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
scalableworkloadsapachebig-dataspark
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