Peter Rinehart
Senior Software Engineer at Pentaho
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Rinehart is a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of focused open-source and enterprise back-end experience, currently contributing to Pentaho and Hitachi Vantara projects. He specializes in big data and ETL systems—making practical enhancements to Kafka consumers/producers, Hadoop/Shims, Hive/Impala integrations, and Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle). His work blends security and performance improvements, from caching LDAP authenticators and password encoding to SSL for JMS steps and Spring security upgrades. Peter also improves code quality and maintainability through refactoring, checkstyle cleanup, and test fixes, with a track record of addressing subtle bugs like memory allocation and metastore handling that can cause data corruption. Trained in computer science at Cornell, he brings institutional experience from Lockheed Martin to modern analytics stacks, pairing rigorous engineering discipline with hands-on contributions to widely used open-source BI components. An understated strength is his attention to integration edge-cases—linking parent/sub-transformations and variable substitution during previews—that noticeably improve developer and user workflows.
7 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (37)
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plugin-development10
configuration-management10
big-data10
kafka10
spring-security10
hadoop10
java10
security10
olap10
javas10
hive10
checkstyle10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pentaho/pentaho-kettle
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Pentaho Data Integration ( ETL ) a.k.a Kettle
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:222 reviews, 396 commits, 487 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the core logic and functionalities of the Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) tool, a.k.a. Kettle. The commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the platform's data integration capabilities by addressing specific issues and implementing new features, such as implementing SSL for IBM MQ JMS steps. The user's work includes code changes to the UI layout and various security implementations. Additionally, the commits involve test case improvements to ensure the proper behavior of the code.
pentaho-data-integrationetldata-integrationkettlepentaho
pentaho/pentaho-hadoop-shims
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Hadoop Configurations
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 101 commits, 133 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the Hadoop configurations within the `pentaho/pentaho-hadoop-shims` repository. Their work involved fixing bugs, such as ensuring proper memory allocation to prevent data corruption. The user also made changes to methods to avoid version conflicts, as well as adding and modifying configuration files. Furthermore, the user updated code related to file path resolution and implemented changes for Impala-related JDBC functionality, demonstrating experience with Hive and Hadoop ecosystems.
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