Raymie Stata
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRaymie Stata is a seasoned technology executive and systems builder with a multi-decade career designing and scaling large distributed systems, now serving as Technical Advisor at Airbnb and chairman of data-marketing firm Aqfer. He has founded and led startups (Altiscale, Stata Labs), served as SVP/CTO at Yahoo! and SAP, and helped commercialize big-data platforms that power analytics at scale. Raymie pairs deep research roots (PhD in Computer Science, early research roles) with hands-on engineering, contributing to open-source projects like Apache Avro where he improved Java-based serialization and custom coder support. Known for translating complex data problems into elegant, production-ready architectures, he also takes sabbaticals to recharge and hack—an approach that fuels continued inventive leadership. Based in Palo Alto, he blends boardroom strategy with coder-level contributions and a track record of turning academic rigor into practical systems.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
javas10
big-data10
avro10
data-serialization10
schema10
java10
serialization10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/avro
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Apache Avro is a data serialization system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 18 PRs, 39 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Raymie primarily contributed to the Apache Avro project by implementing features related to custom coders, specifically focusing on reader and decoder implementations. They made changes to the SpecificCompiler, adding utility methods and modifying code generation for Java types and handling custom coders. Furthermore, the user introduced new test cases and fixed bugs related to schema resolution and custom coding, thereby improving the functionality and performance of Avro's Java implementation.
avrodata-serializationcsharprubycplusplus
tim77code/limbo
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
A simple, clean, easy to modify Slack chatbot
Contributions:85 commits, 35 PRs, 79 pushes in 3 months
chatbotslack
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