Jeremy Custenborder
Forward Deployed AI Engineer at DatologyAI
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJeremy Custenborder is a Forward Deployed AI Engineer with 16 years of engineering experience building and operationalizing distributed systems and streaming platforms from Austin, Texas. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kafka and Confluent ecosystem components—contributing bug fixes, feature work, and test coverage to high-profile open-source projects like Apache Kafka and Confluent Schema Registry—and has driven serialization and commit reliability improvements used in production pipelines. Jeremy combines principal-level systems engineering and field CTO experience with strategic technical leadership roles, helping organizations bridge engineering, product, and go-to-market needs. Known for pragmatic, reliability-first approaches, he moves quickly from low-level bug fixes to shaping architecture and developer tooling that scales.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
avro10
kafka10
apache-kafka10
schema10
java10
testing10
error-handling9
unit-testing9
rest-api8
scala7
hdfs6
hadoop6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Feb 2016 - May 2020
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:16 commits, 20 PRs, 15 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to improving the Apache Kafka Connect framework by adding functionality and addressing bugs. They implemented features like `commitRecord` and enhanced existing functionalities such as the commit process, and also added a test case to prove the commit function was working correctly. In addition to functionality and code changes, the user also added validation to the schema building process to improve its reliability and the robustness of error handling.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
confluentinc/schema-registry
Feb 2016 - Nov 2017
Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 20 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily focused on enhancing the `avro-serializer` module within the schema registry. Their work involved fixing configuration issues, refactoring code to improve maintainability, and introducing new constructors for improved usability. They also contributed to the client code, implementing a method to return all subjects for a schema registry instance and updating tests. These contributions collectively improve the functionality and reliability of the schema registry's serialization and deserialization components.
avroschema-registryprotobuf-schemaprotobufschema-validation
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