Igor Soarez
Fractional Infrastructure Lead Kafka Specialist Founder at The Apache Software Foundation
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIgor Soarez is a seasoned infrastructure and distributed systems engineer and founder with 11 years of experience and nearly eight focused on Apache Kafka. He has led large-scale Kafka migrations and platform re‑builds at Apple—authoring JBOD support for KRaft and becoming Apple’s first Kafka committer—and now serves as a fractional infrastructure lead and Kafka specialist from London. Igor combines hands-on bug fixes in core Kafka (including LogManager resiliency and ZooKeeper security hardening) with leadership that bridges dev, SRE and product teams to deliver non‑disruptive replatforms. He also co-founded a creator-marketing startup that shipped cross-platform mobile apps and automated creator vetting with multi-model AI pipelines, showing a knack for shipping product alongside deep infrastructure work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, Greek
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Github Skills (19)
npm10
kafka10
java10
scala10
javas10
zookeeper9
performance-optimization8
devops7
data-structure7
data-structures7
hashtable7
html6
documentation6
ejs6
nodejs6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:339 reviews, 8 commits, 73 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Igor primarily contributed to the Kafka backend by addressing a critical bug in the `LogManager` related to log directory fallback, ensuring data availability in case of disk failures. They also implemented enhancements in Streams and core components, like better error handling and documentation updates. Furthermore, they worked on preventing root access to Zookeeper, improving the security of the deployment. The contributions show expertise in Kafka's internal workings, performance, and infrastructure management.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
soarez/express-ejs-layouts
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Layout support for ejs in express.
Contributions:1 review, 16 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 9 months
ejsjavascriptexpresslayoutrendering
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