Robert Zych
Staff Software Engineer at Raft
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Zych is a Staff Software Engineer with 7 years of focused experience modernizing data platforms and delivering low-latency analytics in production, currently building real-time analytics and search for Air Force customers using Apache Pinot, Kafka, and OpenSearch. He blends backend engineering (Python, C#, Django, ASP.NET) with cloud and infra expertise (Kubernetes, AWS, ArgoCD) to design scalable pipelines and hardened deployments. Known internally as "the Pinot Guy," he has repeatedly reduced query latencies, fixed data quality issues with off-heap upserts, and introduced anomaly detection tooling to catch upstream problems early. He’s equally comfortable re-architecting OLAP systems and implementing CI/CD and security-hardening at the cluster level, and he values teamwork, integrity, and continuous improvement as drivers for technical success. Based in Sacramento, he brings a practical history of leading small teams to measurable improvements in availability, performance, and observability.
7 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Southern California
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Github Skills (61)
data-stream10
trino10
sql-query10
spark10
realtime10
delta-lake10
apache-flink10
prestodb10
data-science10
warehouse10
databases10
big-data10
data-analytics10
distributed-systems10
hadoop10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
robertzych/pinot
Jan 2023 - Jul 2024
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Contributions:102 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 6 months
realtimeolapapachedatastorepinot
robertzych/trino
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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