Randall Hauch
Software Engineer at Superblocks
Edwardsville, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRandall Hauch is a seasoned software engineer with over 30 years of engineering experience and more than a decade of open-source leadership, best known for founding and launching the Debezium change-data-capture project and serving on the Apache Kafka PMC. He has deep expertise in distributed data systems, Kafka Connect connectors, and data integration—contributing substantial backend improvements and reliability fixes across high-profile projects like Apache Kafka, Confluent connectors, and Schema Registry. Randall combines hands-on coding (from JVM-based streams and connectors to Dockerized build pipelines) with technical writing and documentation work, helping maintainability and adoption across ecosystems. His background spans enterprise architecture and standards work (ModeShape, JSR-333, OASIS S-RAMP) through roles at Red Hat and Confluent, and he now applies that experience to building developer-facing platforms at Superblocks. An aerospace-trained engineer, he brings a systems-level mindset and a penchant for automating robust build and deployment processes—often addressing subtle edge cases in CDC and connector behavior that many teams overlook.
15 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
MS Aerospace Engineering, MS Aerospace Engineering at Saint Louis University
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Github Skills (67)
testing10
debezium10
bash10
hadoop10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
automation10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
lessc10
schema10
elasticsearch-api10
avro10
amazon-elasticsearch10
connection-manager10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka-site
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
Mirror of Apache Kafka site
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:4 reviews, 15 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Randall's contributions primarily involve updating and maintaining documentation for the Apache Kafka site. They added and corrected documentation related to the 2.6.0 release, as well as the 2.6.0 RC1 and RC2 releases. The user also updated download links and release notes for various Kafka versions, including 2.6.1, 2.8.0, and made a minor fix to the quickstart guide. Additionally, the user added a CVE entry.
apache-kafkascalakafka
debezium/container-images
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Docker images for Debezium. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:86 commits, 63 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Randall primarily focused on automating and structuring the build and deployment processes for the Debezium container images. They refactored the repository structure to enable automated builds using DockerHub, upgraded Java versions, and enhanced the build process with bash scripts. Additionally, they added and modified Docker entrypoint scripts for various Debezium components, including Kafka, Connect, and the website builder, ensuring consistent configuration and startup procedures. This included the implementation of JMX support.
debeziumdocker-imagechange-data-capturecontainer-imagedocker-images
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