Micah Whitacre
Architect at Oracle
Olathe, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMicah Whitacre is an architect and seasoned distributed systems engineer with 13 years of experience designing and commoditizing scalable backend infrastructure for enterprise healthcare and cloud platforms. He has led large efforts to transition batch systems to near-real-time streaming pipelines using Kafka, Spark, Flink and other Apache projects, while simplifying ingestion and providing self-service APIs and SDKs to accelerate adoption across hundreds of developers. At Cerner he built platforms handling billions of events and terabytes per day, and now applies that expertise at Oracle while advising the University of Kansas EECS program. Comfortable across the full stack—from Eclipse RCP desktop work to backend big data and cloud services—he combines hands-on coding in Java, C++, Python and Ruby with architectural strategy and developer education. Notably, he has contributed to Apache Crunch and has a track record of moving proprietary stacks toward open-source, lakehouse-style architectures to reduce operational complexity.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasMBA, MBA at University of Kansas - Graduate School of Business
Github Skills (59)
confluent10
kafka-connector10
sink10
kite10
crunch10
streaming10
kafka-connect9
java9
jdbc9
kafka9
sdk9
database8
apache8
databases8
cookbook8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mkwhitacre/kite-apps
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
hadoopkite
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