Howard Fear
Engineer 5 (Principal Engineer) at Comcast
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHoward Fear is a Principal Engineer with 13+ years of recent experience building reliable data platforms and distributed systems across media and cloud domains. He architects and implements end-to-end data products and pipelines using Scala, Python, Spark and a broad AWS stack, and recently led Airflow-based workflow and Deequ data-quality implementations at Comcast. A certified ScrumMaster and longtime advocate of TDD and pair programming, he combines hands-on coding with coaching and CI/CD migrations (Jenkins to Concourse) to improve team velocity and reliability. His background spans embedded to web-scale systems—from Bell Labs and StorageTek to Oracle and MapQuest—giving him deep expertise in event-driven architectures, messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and observability. Notably, he has repeatedly modernized legacy practices into automated, test-driven processes that cut release cycles and defect rates dramatically.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Tulane UniversityBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderMS EE/CS Computer Science, MS EE/CS Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
jq7
aem6
jsonpath6
forloop6
java6
json6
apache-spark6
cli5
command-line-tool5
stubbing4
command-line4
sling4
apache3
gradle-plugin3
in-memory3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hsfear/exercises
Jan 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:21 commits, 76 pushes in 1 year 7 months
hsfear/cq-gradle-plugin
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
adobegradleadobe-cqaemgradle-plugin
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