Mike Barlotta
Lead Software Architect at Booz Allen Hamilton
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolMike Barlotta is a pragmatic lead software architect with over two decades of experience and a recent decade focused on cloud-native Java/REST microservices, supply chain and store-receiving domains. He has led architecture and modernization efforts at Walmart Labs and Lowe’s, coaching teams and shaping microservice products used across distribution centers and retail stores. At Walmart he was a lead committer on open-source tooling and contributed to popular Kafka connector work (enhancing Cassandra connector behavior), reflecting hands-on backend expertise in distributed systems and data integration. Now based in the DC–Baltimore area and serving as Lead Software Architect at Booz Allen, he blends deep systems design with Agile/DevOps practice, mentoring engineers while driving delivery. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves legacy retail workflows into cloud platforms without losing sight of operational realities.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at State University of New York at Albany
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Github Skills (13)
kafka-connect10
cassandra10
sql9
javas8
scala8
java8
design-patterns6
xml6
xsd6
endpoint6
apache-kafka6
apache-camel6
vertx6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lensesio/stream-reactor
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
A collection of open source Apache 2.0 Kafka Connector maintained by Lenses.io.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mike's commits primarily focus on enhancing and maintaining the Cassandra source connector. They made modifications to the `CassandraTableReader` class, specifically addressing column selection and preparing SQL statements. The user implemented features to limit the selected columns based on KCQL and made formatting changes for improved code readability. The changes also include code modifications and test implementations, indicating debugging and resolving problems.
dcosdata-streamstreamskafka-connectsql-engine
CodeSmell/MovieFinder
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
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