Kevin Risden
Senior Search Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Risden is a Senior Search Engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in search, big data, and platform security, currently building search at Getty Images and serving as a long-time committer on Apache Lucene/Solr, Calcite, and Knox. He blends deep backend engineering with QA and DevOps experience—contributing notable fixes and test coverage to flagship OSS projects like Apache Solr and the widely used YCSB benchmark. Kevin has led security and platform teams at Cloudera, helped roll out CDP Public Cloud features, and has a track record of hardening authentication, SSL, and Kerberos in large distributed systems. Equally comfortable in code and operations, he migrates legacy dependencies to pure-Java solutions and implements JDBC/SQL metadata and replication improvements. Based in Greenville, SC, he combines enterprise customer escalation experience with prolific open-source stewardship, often tackling the subtle edge cases that break production systems.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High Technology High SchoolBS Computer Science/Software Engineering, BS Computer Science/Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (48)
apache-calcite10
hbase10
deploying10
cloud-computing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
configuration-management10
big-data10
query-optimization10
metadata10
hadoop10
solr10
java-annotations10
jdbc10
java10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
apache/knox
Sep 2018 - Aug 2021
Mirror of Apache Knox
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 670 commits, 255 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the gateway-adapter module, implementing changes to ensure classes within the module are deprecated and also fixed problems within the code. The user also modified other Java classes to deprecated and removed the usage of several legacy functions and modules. The user addressed multiple issues, with a focus on updating and improving the functionality of the core components of the project.
javaapachebig-dataknox
brianfrankcooper/YCSB
Jan 2016 - Feb 2020
Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 68 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to adding tests and bindings for Solr within the YCSB framework. They also added support for Kerberized Solr and an Elasticsearch 5.x binding, demonstrating a focus on expanding the database support. Furthermore, the user reverted an Accumulo test and made updates to Cassandra tests and the core components, highlighting a range of database interactions and framework improvements.
servingbenchmarkingbenchmarkyahookubernetes
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