Lukas Blunschi is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with 12 years of hands-on experience building web applications, managing databases, and running information systems. He has deep Java expertise and contributes to real-world platform reliability—evidenced by back-end improvements to the widely used Hazelcast project that tightened near-cache consistency and reduced unnecessary deserialization. At Appway he focuses on the platform layer, bringing a pragmatic mix of application development and DBA skills to production systems. His background includes academic research at ETH Zürich and a stint at Credit Suisse, giving him strong foundations in systems design and analytical rigor. Lukas also maintains long-term operational experience as a system administrator, which informs his practical approach to hosting and deployment. He prefers designing web tools that solve real-life problems and bridges research-level thinking with production-grade engineering.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily focused on improving the Hazelcast data platform's near cache functionality. Their contributions involved modifying the `MapProxySupport.java` file to locally invalidate the near cache after put and remove operations, ensuring data consistency. Further enhancements included avoiding unnecessary deserialization when retrieving values from the near cache and ensuring the correct behavior of `get()` calls. The user also contributed to related test cases.
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 5 months
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