Lynn Hughes-godfrey
Software Engineer at Broadcom
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLynn Hughes-godfrey is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of focused experience in designing and testing multi-threaded, distributed Java systems and a long career leading teams across networking and embedded domains. Currently at Broadcom and formerly a Principal QE Software Engineer at Pivotal/VMware, she combines hands-on backend development with people leadership, mentoring QA teams and managing release and test strategies. Her open-source contributions include improving Lucene indexing behavior and recovery semantics in the widely-used Apache Geode project, reflecting a knack for complex index and recovery logic in distributed caches. Lynn’s background spans embedded real-time systems, telecommunications, and in-memory caching products, and she pairs deep technical troubleshooting with process improvements that boost reliability and team productivity. Uncommonly for an engineer, she also holds a Bachelor in Music Performance, hinting at disciplined practice and creative problem-solving in her approach.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's in Computer Science (coursework complete), Computer Science, Master's in Computer Science (coursework complete), Computer Science at University of South Carolina
Japanese
Github Skills (7)
lucene10
javas10
geode10
java10
testing8
data-structures6
data-structure6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
apache/geode
Apr 2015 - Oct 2018
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 126 commits, 52 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lynn primarily contributed to the Apache Geode project by modifying and enhancing the Lucene index functionality. Their commits focused on improving the attributes of the lucene index regions, integrating recovery and startup recovery delays from user regions. The user also made code changes related to ensuring the correct behavior of the create via load functions for the Lucene index. The contributions also addressed various issues related to reindexing, and improvements to the shutdown procedures for the gateway sender and event id verification.
accumuloapachenetwork-serverdatagridjava
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