Lewis Mcgibbney
Senior Solutions Architect at The Apache Software Foundation
Glendora, California, United States
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Top SchoolLewis Mcgibbney is a Senior Solutions Architect with 14 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, open-source driven solutions, currently shaping technical vision and customer success at Grafana Labs. He combines hands-on backend Java work—demonstrated by adding translation capabilities to the widely used Apache Tika toolkit—with deep programmatic governance as a long-time Apache PMC member and Assistant Treasurer. His NASA JPL tenure shows experience operationalizing mission-critical CI/CD, large-scale search and data platforms, and migrating Earth science services to the cloud. He excels at turning complex stakeholder requirements into auditable, resilient architectures and has led cross-functional teams through training, risk mitigation, and release management. An advocate for open standards and semantic technologies, he helped open-source ontologies and chaired multiple technical working groups that influenced NASA and W3C practices. Based in Glendora, CA, he blends academic rigor from a PhD in Legislative Informatics with practical delivery chops across enterprise and research environments.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Maritime Management (concentration in International Logistics Management), Master of Science - MS, Maritime Management (concentration in International Logistics Management) at Maine Maritime AcademyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Legislative Informatics in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC), Graduated, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Legislative Informatics in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC), Graduated at Glasgow Caledonian University
Github Skills (17)
json10
web-crawler10
translation10
apache-tika10
apache10
java10
javas10
html10
rest-api10
content-extraction9
javascript9
crawling9
metadata9
angularjs9
testing8
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
apache/nutch
Mar 2016 - May 2022
Apache Nutch is an extensible and scalable web crawler
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:88 reviews, 146 commits, 317 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lewis primarily contributed to fixing compilation errors and improving the functionality of the `CommonCrawlDataDumper` tool within the Apache Nutch project. Their work involved modifying Java code, specifically addressing issues related to data dumping and testing. The user demonstrated proficiency in Java and familiarity with testing frameworks. Additionally, they implemented a parameterized logging notation across the Fetcher component.
scalableweb-crawlernutchosgiapache
apache/tika
Apr 2016 - Feb 2022
The Apache Tika toolkit detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF).
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 43 commits, 37 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Lewis implemented a Tika Translator using the JoshuaDecoder, enabling translation capabilities within the Apache Tika toolkit. This involved creating a new Java class, JoshuaNetworkTranslator, and integrating it with the existing translation framework. The changes included handling JSON responses from the Joshua REST server and adding a test class for the new translator. Furthermore, the user merged the master branch into their feature branch and addressed related merging issues to keep the code up to date.
apache-tikaextractionxlspdfppt
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