Michael Miklavcic
Staff Software Engineer at Cloudera
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMichael Miklavcic is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years building and shipping production-grade Hadoop and big data solutions across startups, enterprises and government. An Apache Metron committer and PMC member, he combines deep backend and DevOps expertise—PCAP data processing, RPM packaging, and Ambari service automation—with pragmatic testing and TDD practices for large-scale ETL pipelines. He’s delivered end-to-end solutions using Spark, Hive, Pig, NiFi and related ecosystem tools while mentoring customers on performance tuning at terabyte scale. Based in Denver, he brings a systems-architect mindset from hands-on roles at Hortonworks and Cloudera and from running his own consulting firm. Notably, he presented Billboard Hot 100 analysis using Spark and Zeppelin at Apache Big Data Europe, reflecting a penchant for turning real-world datasets into compelling technical stories.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Majors: Computer Science (CSC), Computer Information Systems (CIS), Bachelor of Science, Majors: Computer Science (CSC), Computer Information Systems (CIS) at Baldwin Wallace University
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Github Skills (19)
java10
javas10
hadoop9
hbase9
hadoop-mapreduce9
zookeeper9
hdfs9
mapreduce9
rest-api8
kafka8
configuration-management8
devops7
apache-storm7
packaging7
package7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/metron
May 2016 - Jan 2020
Apache Metron
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:132 commits, 171 PRs, 1376 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Apache Metron project by implementing features for PCAP (Packet Capture) data, particularly query filtering capabilities. They also focused on general best practices and bug fixes within the project, enhancing the reliability of the backend functionality. Furthermore, they added support for RPM packaging and created Ambari service definitions, indicating a focus on deployment and infrastructure automation. These contributions demonstrate skills in backend development and DevOps.
javametronapache
mmiklavc/linux-env
Aug 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:16 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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