Jesse Rivas
Senior Data Engineer - CDN Logs And Analytics
Englewood, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Rivas is a Senior Data Engineer with eight years of experience building large-scale analytics and CDN systems, currently driving observability and log analytics at Comcast from Englewood, Colorado. He led engineering of an alternative analytics platform for massive CDN logs that reduced software licensing costs by millions, and built CI/CD pipelines, deployment playbooks, and tooling to scale onboarding of new data sources. Earlier work includes contributing backend features to the open-source Apache Traffic Control CDN, where he improved JSON handling and core delivery components. Jesse combines deep practical experience in distributed systems, networking, and data engineering with a strong backend Java background honed at Comcast and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He’s comfortable translating complex operational requirements into robust, maintainable code and automation. An engineer who prefers solving cost- and scale-related constraints, he brings both production grit and open-source collaboration to observability challenges.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityThunderRidge High School
Github Skills (5)
javas10
json10
cdn10
java10
apache9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficcontrol
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
Apache Traffic Control is an Open Source implementation of a Content Delivery Network
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:137 commits, 40 PRs, 52 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to back-end development by adding and modifying Java code, specifically focusing on the core configuration and delivery service components of the Apache Traffic Control CDN. They implemented a new JsonUtils class and performed code cleanup to enhance code maintainability. They also refactored the codebase by replacing existing JsonUtils.get methods with JsonUtils.opt. These changes demonstrate expertise in working with JSON data structures and improving the robustness of the codebase.
apachecontent-deliverycontent-delivery-networktraffictrafficcontrol
rivasj/trafficcontrol
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Mirror of Apache Traffic Control (incubating)
Contributions:3 PRs, 285 pushes, 45 branches in 1 year 5 months
incubatingaccumuloconnectorapachedatastream
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