Keith Chapman
Senior Director Of Engineering - Data Management Services & OSS
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Chapman is a senior engineering leader and researcher with nine years of industry experience, currently leading Data Management Services and OSS at Dremio. He combines deep systems expertise—compilers, language runtimes, garbage collection, and transactional memory—with proven product and engineering leadership from roles at Bigstream and WSO2. While earning graduate research credentials at Purdue he designed XJ, a hybrid HTM/STM Java dialect that required compiler, bytecode-rewriting, and OpenJDK-level changes, demonstrating rare full-stack systems research to production-path experience. A long-standing Apache committer, he shipped WSDL 2.0 support in Axis2 and has a history of bridging academic innovation and open-source engineering to solve high-concurrency real-world problems. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he brings both low-level performance insight and strategic OSS stewardship to data platform challenges.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Wesley College, Sri LankaMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Purdue University
English
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Github Skills (43)
catalog10
aws-lambda10
semantics10
java10
nessie10
lakes9
transactional9
spark9
indexing9
databases9
sql9
database9
kudu8
sql-database8
accumulo8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
keithgchapman/keithgchapman.github.com
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
keithgchapman/nessie
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Nessie: Transactional Catalog for Data Lakes with Git-like semantics
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
transactionalnessiesparksemanticslakes
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