Ron Dagostino
Retired
West Tisbury, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRon Dagostino is a retired software engineer and architect with over three decades of programming experience and 11 years focused on core Kafka functionality at Confluent and State Street. He specialized in Java and Kafka, contributing key open-source work such as SASL OAuth2 and re-authentication support to both librdkafka and the Confluent Go client, and presented that work at Kafka Summit NYC. An MIT-trained physicist with an MBA, he has a long history of telecommuting (since 1996) and building secure, cloud-ready APIs and services for enterprise environments. Beyond engineering, he has served on nonprofit boards and created financial models for renewable energy projects, reflecting a blend of technical depth and community engagement. An early programmer on the Commodore PET, he brings a lifetime of hands-on coding, systems design, and clear technical communication to any project.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Physics, B.S. Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.B.A. High Tech Program, M.B.A. High Tech Program at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (25)
authentication10
kafka10
user-authentication10
librdkafka10
c1110
c1710
go10
apache-kafka10
oauth10
kafka-consumer10
admin9
c-language9
producer9
admin-interface9
cprogramming-language9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/librdkafka
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
The Apache Kafka C/C++ library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 commits, 1 PR, 152 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ron's contributions primarily involved adding support for SASL/OAUTHBEARER authentication to the librdkafka library, including initial implementations and subsequent refinements. They developed code for parsing configuration and handling authentication, integrating unsecured token generation. The user also refactored the code and addressed build issues. Their work focused on enhancing the library's security and authentication capabilities.
apache-kafkacppkafka-consumerc-libraryc-plus-plus
confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 21 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ron primarily contributed to the implementation of SASL/OAUTHBEARER authentication support for the Confluent Kafka Go client. Their work involved adding the necessary event handling, integrating with librdkafka, and creating the required methods for setting and retrieving the token. Additionally, the user worked on example applications to demonstrate the usage of the new OAuth bearer token functionality. The user's contributions span various aspects of the Kafka client, including the core library, producer, consumer, and admin client components.
golanggolang-libraryapache-kafkaconfluent-cloudgolang-bindings
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