Richard Goodman
Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer
Hove, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Goodman is a Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer with nine years' experience building and operating large-scale Hadoop ecosystem platforms at Brandwatch. He specialises in Solr architecture, Kafka, HBase and resilient data pipelines, and has moved from graduate roles to making deployment and design decisions as well as submitting fixes back upstream to the Solr community. Comfortable with Python and Java, he combines hands-on on-call ownership for zero-data-loss operations with developing in-house tooling to improve observability and control. Based in Hove, he pairs a First-class BSc in Computer Science from the University of Brighton with practical production experience in data placement, availability and clarity. Notably, his career shows a steady progression into technical leadership while retaining deep operational expertise across distributed search and streaming systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First at University of Brighton
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
apache-airflow10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
machine-learning10
dotnet10
workflow-engine10
apache10
scheduler10
etl10
automation10
dag10
mlops10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
richardbadman/bw-lucene-solr
Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
Mirror of Apache Lucene + Solr
Contributions:16 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 10 months
solrapachelucenejavaapache-lucene
richardbadman/airflow
Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Contributions:9 pushes in 8 months
monitorapacheprogrammaticallyapache-airflowairflow
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