Florian Barca
Senior Software Engineer at Tideworks Technology
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Barca is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with over two decades of C++ and systems engineering experience and 11 years in his current professional timeline delivering scalable multi-tier client-server systems, databases, APIs and SDKs. He has a strong background in datacenter and voice/unified communications software, having driven major platform improvements at Microsoft, Hortonworks (porting Apache Ambari to Windows), and embedded/server products at VoiceBox. Florian is a pragmatic problem-solver who moves quickly from design to production—he ported large codebases to 64-bit in weeks, cut diagnostic latencies dramatically, and designed data-driven algorithms that improved accuracy by 25%. He excels at integrating cross-team requirements into robust release-ready solutions, evidenced by his work automating MS SQL deployments and integrating Ambari into Windows build and AD environments. A hands-on mentor and consistent individual contributor, he combines deep technical craft with a knack for long-term architecture and operationalizing complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate license, Math and Physics, Graduate license, Math and Physics at Mircea cel Bătrân High schoolBS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Github Skills (10)
javas10
windows-service10
hadoop10
ambari10
python10
java10
amba10
devops9
maven8
sql-server7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
apache/ambari
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:97 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on enhancing the Windows support for the Apache Ambari project, which involves provisioning, managing, and monitoring Hadoop clusters. Their contributions include building Windows server assemblies for Ambari Metrics service, creating Windows service skeletons, adding support for embedded HBase services, and fixing service shutdown processes. The user also addressed issues related to the Agent, the Ambari Server, and Hive, demonstrating proficiency in adapting the project to a Windows environment and integrating it with Hadoop.
provisioningpythonclustersjavascriptapache
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