Mick Wever
Foundation Member, PMC, Committer, VP
Norway
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Top SchoolMick Wever is a Principal Architect and engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing and implementing distributed data platforms, specializing in Apache Cassandra internals and low-latency, event-driven microservices. As an Apache Software Foundation member, Cassandra committer and PMC member — and former PMC Chair for both Tiles and Cassandra — he blends deep open-source governance with practical engineering at scale. He has driven storage and tracing improvements in notable projects like Zipkin and OpenTracing and recently built a Cassandra vector store for Spring AI, showing a knack for adapting core database tech to modern AI needs. His career spans global roles at The Last Pickle, DataStax and IBM, where he shaped Cassandra-based offerings and enterprise data products. Trained in computer science and physics, he applies scientific rigor to performance tuning and schema design while mentoring incubation efforts for projects such as SkyWalking and Otava. Outside code, he’s an avid outdoorsman — an indicator of the endurance and focus he brings to long-running distributed systems work.
20 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science and Physics (Double Major) Specialisations in Scientific Computing and Robotics, Bachelor Computer Science and Physics (Double Major) Specialisations in Scientific Computing and Robotics at University of WollongongChevalier College
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Github Skills (22)
back-end-development10
cassandra10
api-design10
distributed-tracing10
vector-database10
schema-design10
zipkin10
java10
javas10
spring-boot10
cql10
backend10
cassandra-database10
artificial-intelligence9
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
opentracing/opentracing-java
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
OpenTracing API for Java. 🛑 This library is DEPRECATED! https://github.com/opentracing/specification/issues/163
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 42 PRs, 92 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mick primarily focused on refactoring and simplifying the OpenTracing Java API. Their contributions involved removing deprecated components and consolidating functionalities, specifically related to `TraceContext`, logging, and span creation. They introduced a builder pattern for creating spans and integrated the AutoClosable interface for improved resource management. Furthermore, the user added an example tracer-independent implementation and integrated it with a Brave Bridge for OpenTracing to Zipkin.
apispecificationtracingdistributed-tracingjava
openzipkin/zipkin
Aug 2015 - Mar 2018
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 30 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mick primarily focused on improving the Cassandra storage component of the Zipkin distributed tracing system. Their contributions involved updating Cassandra schema, implementing new data models, and optimizing query performance. Key changes included introducing new features like data transparency, modifying data structures for efficient indexing, and adapting the storage layer to use newer Cassandra features and APIs. These changes aimed to enhance data access and improve the overall efficiency of the Zipkin service.
opentelemetrydistributedtracingopenzipkinobservability
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