Otto Fowler
Committer Apache Nifi at Industrial Defender
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolOtto Fowler is a seasoned back-end engineer and Apache committer with 12 years of experience building and hardening data integration and industrial IoT tooling. Based in Rhode Island, he contributes to high-profile open-source projects including Apache NiFi, Metron, and PLC4X, driving improvements in Grok processing, Stellar transformations, syslog parsing, and PLC protocol adapters. As a Committer and PMC member on PLC4X and a current Committer on NiFi, he blends deep Java testing and processor-level work with practical protocol and data-model design. In industry he serves as a Systems Software Architect, translating complex operational requirements into robust, testable systems. Unusually for a technologist, his academic background is a B.A. in History, reflecting a knack for clear documentation and systems-thinking beyond pure engineering.
12 years of coding experience
B.A., History, B.A., History at Providence College
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apache-nifi10
back-end-development10
grok10
testing10
c-programming10
c1110
data-structure10
java10
c1710
javas10
stellar10
data-structures10
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apidoc9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apache/metron
Oct 2016 - May 2020
Apache Metron
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 168 PRs, 2052 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Otto's commits focus on enhancing the Apache Metron platform, specifically addressing issues and implementing features within the backend components. Their contributions include resolving bugs related to handling special characters in Stellar transformations, clarifying error handling in integration tests, and adding new functionalities like the TO_LONG function and the FILL_LEFT and FILL_RIGHT functions to Stellar. The user also addressed issues related to the Metron shell and provided the addition of support for parsing of RFC 5424 messages within the syslog parser.
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apache/nifi
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
Apache NiFi
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 33 commits, 65 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Otto contributed to Apache NiFi, a data integration and processing system. Their commits focused on creating test jars for standard processors, removing unnecessary test server instances, and updating code related to testing various processors within the system. Additionally, the user worked on upgrading the Grok library, and adding support for keeping empty captures in the ExtractGrok processor. Their work involved modifications to Java code, primarily related to testing and the Grok processing functionality of NiFi.
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