Eugene Koontz
SRE at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolEugene Koontz is an SRE with 16 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure for companies like Booking.com, Sift Science, and Apple, with deep expertise in databases, web services, networking, and Hadoop ecosystems. He blends hands-on DevOps practice with open source development, often focusing on natural language understanding, anti-spam, e-government solutions, and GIS. At Apple he supported Siri Hadoop operations, and at Trend Micro and earlier roles he developed core Hadoop tooling—skills he now applies to reliability and scalability challenges at Booking.com. Interested in functional programming and human languages, Eugene brings a thoughtful, research-oriented bent to practical systems engineering. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs cross-stack technical depth with a history of integrating and extending free software to solve complex production problems.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Buffalo State UniversitySoko Gakuen
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Github Skills (65)
parser10
expressions10
language-learning10
spanish10
clojure10
grammars10
linguistics10
unification10
parsing10
babashka9
parse-tree9
java9
graph9
counter9
k8s8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ekoontz/clojure-mr-wordcount
Dec 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:82 commits in 3 days
ekoontz/zookeeper
Jan 2011 - Oct 2016
Contributions:544 commits, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 10 months
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