Lee Rhodes
PMC Chair, Founder, Apache Datasketches Project
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolLee Rhodes is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader with over three decades of experience building high-performance analytical systems and scaling teams from napkin concepts to production. As founder and PMC Chair of the Apache DataSketches project and long-time Distinguished Architect at Yahoo/Verizon Media, he pioneered production-grade stochastic streaming algorithms that enable order-of-magnitude reductions in latency, compute and storage for big-data queries. He combines deep mathematical and systems expertise—backed by multiple patents and academic collaborations—with hands-on contributions to the datasketches-java library to ensure correctness and robustness. Known for growing elite engineering teams and navigating executive and partner negotiations, he balances strategic objectives with practical, ship-ready solutions. Based in Los Altos, he brings a rare blend of research-led innovation and pragmatic product delivery in real-time analytics for massive data streams.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at San Diego State UniversityMS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (6)
data-structures10
javas10
algorithms10
data-structure10
java10
testing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/datasketches-java
Jun 2015 - Dec 2022
A software library of stochastic streaming algorithms, a.k.a. sketches.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 releases, 370 reviews, 2103 commits in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lee contributed to code cleanup and implemented several checks to improve the consistency of the sketch. This involved adding more consistent checking of various anomalous conditions and ensuring that the results of set operations and serialization had consistent relationships between various parameters. Additionally, the user reinserted tests that were mistakenly removed and fixed review comments, demonstrating a focus on code quality and accuracy.
big-datajava-coredatasketchessketchjava
ApacheInfra/incubator-datasketches-memory
May 2019 - Jan 2022
Apache datasketches
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
javadatasketchesdatabaseapache
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