Kerry Donny-clark
Engineering Manager at Google
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKerry Donny-clark is an experienced engineering manager based in Chapel Hill with 11 years in software and a PhD in Computational Biology from NYU, blending deep research rigor with production-grade engineering. Currently leading the Apache Beam team at Google, Kerry brings strong backend and DevOps chops across Python, Java, C/C++, and Go while contributing to Beam’s multi-SDK testing and ML inference improvements. Previously a senior engineer and manager at AWS and Google, Kerry has shepherded internal enterprise systems and cloud-scale data processing efforts. Outside tech, Kerry ran and performed as owner and ringmaster of Triangle Circus Arts, demonstrating uncommon leadership, teaching ability, and creative risk-taking. This combination of open-source impact on a major project (Apache Beam), ML pipeline experience, and hands-on management makes Kerry effective at scaling teams and reliable data-processing platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Biology, PhD Computational Biology at New York University
Japanese
Github Skills (17)
batching10
python10
testing10
big-data10
batch10
apache-beam10
streaming10
typescript9
typescript-types9
nodejs9
typescripts9
cicd7
dockers5
docker5
java4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/beam
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 4 commits, 8 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Kerry contributed significantly to the Apache Beam project by adding and updating tests, specifically for the Node.js SDK using TypeScript. They also implemented features related to setting environment variables for model loading in the ML inference pipeline for the Python SDK. Furthermore, the user made changes to the build process, including updates to the webpack configuration. These contributions involved working with multiple SDKs and improving the testing infrastructure of the project.
golangpythonstreaming-databeambatch
kerrydc/beam
Feb 2022 - Oct 2023
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming
Contributions:54 pushes in 1 year 8 months
stream-processingbeambatchstreamingapache
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