Lucia Cerchie
Developer Advocate
Greater Phoenix Area United States
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Top SchoolLucia Cerchie is a Developer Advocate with six years of experience crafting human-centered developer experiences and interactive demos at Confluent, blending hands-on coding with public-facing content. She builds full-stack demos in JavaScript and Python, contributes Java fixes and stability improvements to Apache Kafka, and creates real-time data visualizations using Streamlit, Flink, Altair and Kafka. Based in the Greater Phoenix Area, she regularly communicates complex streaming concepts through blogs, talks, live streams, meetups and podcasts, and manages frontend content workflows with Contentful. Her work on Confluent demo-scene includes integrating Alpaca-driven Kafka pipelines and polling JS clients, while upstream Kafka contributions addressed concurrency and timeout issues in Kafka Streams. Comfortable shifting between product strategy and tactical engineering, she brings a liberal arts background that surfaces in clear, empathetic developer documentation and outreach. She starts her day with coffee and winds down with yoga, a small ritual that keeps her focused on crafting delightful developer journeys.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Thomas Aquinas College
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
apache-flink10
kafka10
flink-sql10
kafka-streams10
java10
scala10
javas10
streamlit10
demoscene10
concurrency10
serialization9
python9
data-serialization9
altair9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/demo-scene
Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
Scripts and samples to support Confluent Demos, Talks, and Blogs. Not all of the examples in this repository are kept up to date. For automated tutorials and QA'd code, see https://github.com/confluentinc/tutorials/
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 26 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lucia primarily contributed to the development of a demo showcasing real-time stock price averages using Kafka, Flink, and Streamlit. They implemented and refactored code for a Streamlit application that visualizes stock data, incorporating Altair charts for data presentation. The user also set up the necessary Kafka producer and consumer logic, integrated with the Alpaca API, and made improvements to the overall structure and maintainability of the Streamlit application. They added new JavaScript client demos that poll data from Kafka topics.
roughkafka-connectconfluentincsyslogelasticsearch
apache/kafka
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 2 commits, 9 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lucia contributed to the Apache Kafka project by addressing specific bugs and implementing enhancements related to Kafka Streams. This included adding synchronization to the `prefixScan` method in `InMemoryKeyValueStore` to resolve a `ConcurrentModificationException` and handling `TimeoutException` during internal topic creation to prevent application crashes. The user also modified code related to range queries, deprecating configurations, and updating documentation regarding decompression. These changes span multiple areas of the Kafka Streams code, enhancing stability and functionality.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
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