Jorge Bay
Staff Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJorge Bay is a Staff Software Engineer based in Madrid with over 15 years of professional experience and a 13-year track record of shipping backend systems for data-intensive applications. He has deep expertise in distributed databases and drivers—demonstrated by architecture and driver work at DataStax and targeted retry-policy and testing contributions to the widely used DataStax Node.js Cassandra driver. An active Apache TinkerPop committer and PMC member, he’s contributed to Gremlin and C# serialization/generics improvements and to Stargate’s server-side capabilities, showing a strong open-source stewardship streak. Jorge blends hands-on engineering with systems thinking, improving error handling, protocol unwrapping, and developer-mode tooling to make platforms more resilient and testable. He recently joined Kong as a Staff Engineer, continuing a pattern of shaping critical data and gateway infrastructure across startups and enterprises. A former founder and long-time contributor to OSS, he brings both pragmatic product focus and low-level protocol discipline to large-scale backend projects.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering at University of Buenos Aires
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (29)
back-end-development10
cassandra10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
java10
serialization10
asp-net10
javas10
dotnet-core10
error-handling10
nodejs10
cql10
csharp10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
datastax/nodejs-driver
Nov 2015 - Sep 2020
DataStax Node.js Driver for Apache Cassandra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:23 releases, 1 review, 544 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jorge's contributions focused on implementing and refining the retry policy for the DataStax Node.js Driver for Apache Cassandra, demonstrating a deep understanding of error handling and database interaction logic. The changes involved making retry policy decisions based on the various Cassandra exceptions, ensuring that the driver could handle network and service-related errors gracefully. Additionally, the user contributed to a framework of tests and code for validating the behaviour of the database with different configurations and conditions, showing a keen eye for software quality.
driverdatastax-drivernosqlcassandranode-js
stargate/stargate
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
An open source data gateway
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:195 reviews, 35 commits, 44 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Stargate project. Their commits focused on binding HTTP services to listen addresses, supporting developer mode, and adding core module dependencies. Additionally, the user made updates to ensure that protocol errors are correctly unwrapped and contributed to setting up and testing CQL functionalities. These changes indicate a focus on improving the server's operational capabilities and enhancing testing procedures.
data-sourcecqlcassandragrpcdata-gateway
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