P Goetz is an experienced engineering leader with over 14 years in software development and a broader 25-year background in building scalable, fault-tolerant systems. Based in West Chester, PA, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Apache Storm—with practical release engineering and build-process improvements. He has integrated messaging and storage systems (Kafka, JMS, Cassandra, Zookeeper) into streaming platforms and recently added LLM backends such as Ollama and GPT-4o into agent/retrieval systems. Comfortable operating at the intersection of infrastructure and application code, he’s the kind of engineer who both architects reliable distributed systems and gets into the trenches fixing build, compatibility, and integration issues.
14 years of coding experience
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Distributed and fault-tolerant realtime computation: stream processing, continuous computation, distributed RPC, and more
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:107 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:P made several contributions related to build and release processes within the Storm project. They added functionality to generate .tar.gz archives for releases and updated the build process to ensure Java 1.6 compatibility. Additionally, the user fixed netty transport unit tests by adding server and client thread configuration and merged a branch related to release cleanup, indicating involvement in maintaining the project's build infrastructure and release management. Furthermore, they made code changes to core components (FixedBatchSpout, Client.java) and updated dependencies.
A collection of spouts, bolts, serializers, DSLs, and other goodies to use with Storm
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:10 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:P primarily contributed to the `storm-contrib` repository by adding support for Apache Cassandra and JMS message queues. Their work involved integrating external libraries and frameworks, as evident in the addition of Storm-Kafka, storm-jms, and other relevant components, as well as integrating with Zookeeper. The commits demonstrate the implementation of new features and integration of existing technologies into the Storm framework. The user's contributions included the creation of new modules and integration with existing components, enhancing the functionality of the Storm platform.
serializersstormboltsgoodiesdsls
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