Faith Chikwekwe
Collections Engineer at Honeycomb.io
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFaith Chikwekwe is a Collections Engineer with eight years of software engineering experience, currently working on Flux language features and data tooling at Honeycomb.io after a background at InfluxData and Evolv AI. She specializes in back-end systems for time-series and observability, contributing to core projects like influxdata/flux and OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib where she improved transformation interfaces and time/duration converters. Comfortable in Go, Rust, and Flux itself, she focuses on making data processing more maintainable and user-friendly while documenting internal APIs to lift team productivity. A passionate community builder and technical instructor, she has a track record of mentoring students and fostering inclusive learning through organizations like Black Girls CODE and Make School. Based in San Francisco, she pairs practical engineering with a clear interest in improving developer experience and community-driven open source.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Make SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Business/Spanish, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Business/Spanish at Georgia State University
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Github Skills (19)
testing10
databases10
query-optimization10
time-series10
aggregate-functions10
go10
flux10
opentelemetry10
fluxor10
influxdb10
database10
documentation9
architectures8
architecture8
scripting-language7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/flux
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
Flux is a lightweight scripting language for querying databases (like InfluxDB) and working with data. It's part of InfluxDB 1.7 and 2.0, but can be run independently of those.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:165 reviews, 76 commits, 139 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Faith primarily contributed to the documentation and implementation of internal Flux transformation interfaces and functions. The user added documentation to the Transformation interface, corrected typos, and improved comments to make the code more accurate. The user's contributions suggest a focus on improving the usability and maintainability of the Flux scripting language, especially with respect to its internal components for processing and transforming data.
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influxdata/influxdb
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 28 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Faith primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the InfluxDB project, focusing on database and query optimizations. They updated the Flux library, a core component for data processing, and implemented features related to aggregate functions, particularly for windowed queries. The user's work included addressing bugs in the storage and query engines, ensuring data integrity and efficient processing within the time-series database.
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