Jake Luciani
Member Of Technical Staff at The Apache Software Foundation
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolJake Luciani is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, data platforms and the intersection of AI and database technologies. He has held senior technical and architect roles at DataStax (now part of IBM/WastonX) and is a current Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, combining hands-on development with strategic product architecture. A long-time Apache committer and PMC member for Thrift and Cassandra, he contributes to production-grade open source projects—recently integrating Jlama support into the Java LangChain implementation and enhancing the Stargate data gateway. Jake’s work spans low-level protocol fixes to high-level system design, and he brings a rare mix of deep implementation knowledge and operational pragmatism. Based in Stamford, CT, he pairs practical engineering with active open-source stewardship that helps move AI-infused data systems into production.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Lehigh University
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Github Skills (24)
back-end-development10
langchain10
perl10
java10
javas10
cql10
thrift10
backend10
api-design9
cassandra9
makefile9
grpc9
webclient8
graphql8
ws-client8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
stargate/stargate
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
An open source data gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 12 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on enhancing the Stargate data gateway's backend functionalities. Their contributions included improving class visibility, refactoring the starter component for extensibility, and adding features related to proxy protocol detection. The user also addressed performance by changing the default TPC core count. They worked on adding cql event filters to send events to connections.
data-sourcecqlcassandragrpcdata-gateway
apache/thrift
Dec 2008 - Mar 2014
Apache Thrift
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jake contributed primarily to the Perl implementation of the Apache Thrift library. Their work included adding dependency checks to the Perl Makefile, fixing issues with socket handling, and providing namespace support in the Perl compiler. Additionally, the user addressed string encoding issues and fixed a deserialization issue related to lists within the codebase.
actionscriptapache-thriftnetwork-clientdartapache
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