Geoff Genz
Senior Engineer at ClickHouse
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolGeoff Genz is a Senior Engineer with 14 years of experience building robust, efficient software across distributed systems, analytics, and client integrations from Denver. He currently focuses on ClickHouse clients and integrations in Python, Go, and the JVM, and has contributed to the popular ClickHouse Go driver by fixing race conditions, improving 32-bit and Apple M1 compatibility, and enhancing JSON handling with tests. Previously he led CDN analytics and data platforms at Comcast and Charter, shaping Kafka-, Spark-, and ClickHouse-powered pipelines and guiding cross-functional teams. Geoff blends a pragmatic, elegant engineering style with deep hands-on experience across Java, Scala, Go, and frontend tech, and brings the rare perspective of a JD-trained thinker to technical problem solving. He’s drawn to hard, real-world problems and prefers solutions that balance creativity with the right-fit approach for long-lived systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor, Juris Doctor at University of Virginia School of LawB.A., Political Science, B.A., Political Science at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (18)
testing10
go10
clickhouse10
admin9
javascript9
caching9
database-administration9
angularjs9
database8
sql8
databases8
json8
asp-net6
php6
angularjs-service6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ClickHouse/clickhouse-go
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Golang driver for ClickHouse
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 35 reviews, 12 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Geoff's contributions primarily focused on improving the ClickHouse Go driver, addressing issues related to data types and concurrency. They fixed a potential race condition, ensured compatibility with 32-bit builds, and updated dependencies for Apple M1 support. The user also added tests and implemented enhancements for handling JSON data within the driver, showcasing expertise in data handling and testing.
golangsqlclickhouseanalytics-databasedatabase
genzgd/Lampost-Mud
Feb 2012 - Mar 2018
Contributions:634 commits, 3 PRs, 175 pushes in 6 years 1 month
js-clientpython-serverpythonangular-htmlvirtual-worlds
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