Jon Brisbin is a seasoned data engineer and software veteran with 16+ years building scalable, high-throughput distributed systems and a career stretching back to US Air Force imagery intelligence. As a co-founder and project lead of Reactor and an active contributor to Spring Data, OpenRewrite, and other prominent OSS projects, he’s repeatedly pushed reactive and data-mapping patterns into mainstream Java tooling. His work at Instana and Moderne shows a knack for squeezing nonlinear throughput gains from pipelines—moving processing off-heap and refactoring critical streams—while at Acante he bridged OpenTelemetry instrumentation with distributed Go/Python processing for security observability. Currently driving data engineering at Bayer Crop Science, he blends hands-on implementation with architectural leadership across cloud, container, and observability stacks. Notably, his background spans Erlang/Elixir, JVM ecosystems, and operational tooling, giving him rare cross-language fluency when solving performance and integration challenges.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA English, BA English at Pittsburg State University
Associate Communication Technology, Associate Communication Technology at Community College of the Air Force
Spring XD makes it easy to solve common big data problems such as data ingestion and export, real-time analytics, and batch workflow orchestration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jon focused on adding and updating Reactor-based components to the Spring XD project, specifically integrating Reactor for data ingestion and processing tasks. Key contributions include the creation of a `ReactorProcessorMessageDispatcher` and `SyslogInboundChannelAdapter`, leveraging Reactor's capabilities. The user also refactored the `SyslogInboundChannelAdapter` and related tests to align with newer Reactor versions, demonstrating an understanding of reactive programming principles within a big data context.
Simplifies building hypermedia-driven REST web services on top of Spring Data repositories
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:124 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of features for Spring Data REST, a framework for building REST web services. Their commits involved the creation of spec tests and README files, indicating a focus on quality assurance and documentation. The changes also included modifications to core configuration classes, suggesting involvement in the framework's architecture, conversion services, and the implementation of methods for querying, creating, updating, and deleting entities.
spring-bootspring-datahypermediadddrepositories
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