Michael Pearce
Lead Architect at The Apache Software Foundation
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Pearce is a Lead Architect based in London with 11+ years delivering large-scale messaging and big data platforms, currently shaping Messaging and Streaming strategy at StoneX Group. He bridges middleware and data engineering, driving Kafka, Apache ActiveMQ/Artemis and Hadoop-ecosystem solutions to migrate batch data lakes into real-time streaming applications and predictions. A long-time Apache committer and ActiveMQ PMC member, he contributed key features to ActiveMQ Artemis and introduced native Kafka headers (KIP-82), underscoring his impact on widely used open-source messaging systems. He combines hands-on core engineering—low-latency Java EE, EJB/Spring, APM and systems integration—with strategic architecture, HA/DR and deployment efficiency. Colleagues rely on him as both a platform lead and advisory architect who enjoys learning and adopting new technologies.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at University of Kent
Github Skills (9)
task-queue10
javas10
messaging10
queuing10
amqp10
java10
queue10
testing9
jms9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
michaelandrepearce/activemq-nms-amqp
May 2019 - Apr 2022
Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ NMS.AMQP Client
Contributions:8 reviews, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 10 months
nmsactivemqapacheamqp-clientamqp
michaelandrepearce/stream-reactor
May 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
reference-architecturekafkaarchitecturestreaming
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