Mandy Chessell
Founder at Egeria Project
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMandy Chessell is a seasoned technical strategist, founder and open-source leader with over three decades of experience driving information management, governance and metadata solutions for large organizations. As founder of Pragmatic Data Research and long-time Egeria project lead, she translates consultancy experience and IBM distinguished engineer pedigree into practical open metadata tooling and deployment services. Her hands-on contributions to projects like Apache Atlas and Egeria show deep backend expertise in connector frameworks, OMRS/OMAG integration and archive store implementations. Mandy combines an academic grounding in software engineering with a rare track record of patents, books and global conference presentations, and she is active in the LF AI & Data TAC and Apache communities. Notably, much of her consultancy insight has been productized through Egeria, providing a reusable metadata backbone that addresses the transparency gaps she’s observed across hundreds of digital transformations.
8 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) hons Computing and Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) hons Computing and Informatics at University of PlymouthA'Levels, A'Levels at Havant College, HantsMaster of Science (MSc) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering at University of BrightonMiddle School, Middle School at St Christopher's School, GibraltarO'levels, O'levels at Warblington School, Havant, Hants
Github Skills (11)
javas10
java10
apache-atlas10
apidoc9
exception-handling9
api9
json9
rest-api8
databases8
database8
data-integration8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
odpi/egeria
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Egeria core
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 287 reviews, 3813 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mandy's commits are focused on creating a directory-based open metadata archive store connector. Their work involved implementing the connector's core functionalities, including writing and reading properties and complete management of the new archive store. They also contributed to adding new types for Archive Engines and Services, as well as implementing a number of fixes, including refactoring code, refactoring variable names and fixing typos, and a code update that required catching Exceptions rather than Throwables.
egerialinux-foundationodpi-egeriaodpidata-engineering
apache/atlas
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Apache Atlas - Open Metadata Management and Governance capabilities across the Hadoop platform and beyond
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:David Radley's contributions focused on developing and extending the Apache Atlas platform, specifically within the OCF (Open Connector Framework) and OMRS (Open Metadata Repository Services) components. His work involved implementing connector functionalities, including the creation of new connector instances within the `ConnectorBroker` and the addition of OMRS API for a more robust architecture. He also contributed to the OMAG server integration and made several updates related to TypeDef GUID validation and overall OMRS configuration.
javaapacheapache-atlasatlasdocker
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