Jakub Scholz
Maintainer at Cloudera
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolJakub Scholz is a seasoned messaging and distributed systems engineer with 11+ years focused on Kafka, AMQP, Kubernetes and OpenShift, currently maintaining the Strimzi project and recently joining Cloudera. He blends backend development and DevOps expertise—authoring fixes and features in Apache Kafka, improving the Strimzi Kafka Operator, and extending the fabric8 Kubernetes Java client—to make cloud-native messaging reliable and secure. His background includes architecting AMQP-based integration at Deutsche Börse and senior engineering leadership at Red Hat, giving him deep experience in production-grade system design and deployment. Known for pragmatic documentation and tooling improvements (including security and SSL work in Kafka and RBAC support in Kubernetes clients), he favors small, high-impact contributions that improve operability. Based in Prague, he pairs technical breadth with formal business and IT education, enabling effective collaboration between engineering and operations teams.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., IT, Management, Economics, Bussines Administration, MSc., IT, Management, Economics, Bussines Administration at Czech Technical University in PragueMSc., Management, Economics, Bussines Administration, MSc., Management, Economics, Bussines Administration at Prague University of Economics and Business
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Github Skills (33)
kubernetes10
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kafka10
java10
kubernetes-client10
scala10
javas10
kubernetes-pods10
apache-kafka10
logger9
rbac9
yaml9
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:137 releases, 5536 reviews, 1902 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily focused on JavaDoc improvements within the `operator-common` module. They also contributed to testing and configuration changes, reflecting involvement in both backend development and DevOps practices. Furthermore, the user addressed code improvements and optimizations, including adjustments related to logging configurations in the `Cluster Operator` module, which aligns with a back-end engineering role focused on software architecture and deployment considerations. Their work also involved handling of specific Kubernetes and Apache Kafka components.
kafka-streamsapache-kafkadcosdata-streamsdata-stream
apache/kafka
Sep 2017 - Sep 2021
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily contributed to the Apache Kafka project by fixing typos, correcting imports, and addressing minor issues in the Kafka Streams tutorial documentation. They also worked on sanitizing application IDs for metrics and adding authorizer configurations to the security documentation. Additionally, they made changes related to SSL support for the Connect REST API, restructuring code and implementing features described in KIP-208. The user's contributions also included fixes in Admin API Javadoc and adding DirectoryConfigProvider to the service provider list.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
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