Julian Hyde
Founder at The Apache Software Foundation
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolJulian Hyde is a veteran open-source database engineer and founder with 24 years of experience building data systems, best known for creating Apache Calcite and the Mondrian OLAP engine. He has led architecture and product integration at companies including Hortonworks, Looker (now part of Google), and Google, and now runs Morel to push SQL and query planning into new domains. A hands-on coder and longtime Apache PMC member, his contributions span core SQL parsing, planner optimizations, JDBC tooling and test automation across projects like Calcite, Avatica, Drill and Mondrian. Beyond leadership, he still ships bug fixes and tests—recently improving date/time correctness and build tooling in Avatica—reflecting a deep focus on correctness and maintainability. Based in Berkeley, he combines academic rigor from Cambridge with entrepreneurial instincts dating back to founding SQLstream and Mondrian.
23 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (35)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pentaho/mondrian
Jun 2002 - Jul 2014
Mondrian is an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) server that enables business users to analyze large quantities of data in real-time.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1879 commits, 2 pushes, 17 comments in 12 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Julian contributed to the development of the Mondrian OLAP server, a tool for real-time business data analysis, primarily by modifying core functionalities and properties. The changes included implementing new APIs for member cache control to add, delete, and modify members in the cache. Also, they addressed bugs in the existing MDX parser and implementation, allowing more flexibility when users pass complex queries.
mondrianolaponline-analytical-processingmdxdatabase
julianhyde/sqlline
Mar 2013 - Jan 2022
Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 2 reviews, 159 commits in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Julian made several changes to the `sqlline` project, a shell for issuing SQL to relational databases. Their contributions focused on improving the codebase by tidying up the code, fixing formatting issues, and removing deprecated items. The user added features by including the file name completion and also improving the handling of the !record command. They also made changes to address specific issues related to JDK compatibility and improved test coverage.
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