Santiago Acosta
Senior Software Engineer at Cloudera
Richmond, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSantiago Acosta is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building backend systems for large-scale data platforms at Cloudera, where he works on the Shared Data Experience team. He brings a strong academic foundation from Rice University and UIUC and a track record of applied research—from genome visualization tools at Baylor to networking proxies for cloud storage. Santiago contributes to notable open-source projects like Hortonworks’ cloudbreak, adding practical API versioning to enable cross-service integrations. Based in Richmond, Texas, he combines systems-level thinking with a collaborative, improvement-driven mindset and a knack for turning research prototypes into production-ready features.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rice UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
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java10
databases8
big-data8
database8
cloud-computing7
hadoop7
nfc6
android-webview6
android-studio6
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hortonworks/cloudbreak
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
CDP Public Cloud is an integrated analytics and data management platform deployed on cloud services. It offers broad data analytics and artificial intelligence functionality along with secure user access and data governance features.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:432 reviews, 81 commits, 134 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Santiago primarily contributed to the `hortonworks/cloudbreak` repository by implementing features related to the environment API. They added a version identifier to the environment API to enable integration with other services. The contributions involved modifications to the environment DTOs, API models, and service components. Their work focused on enhancing the API to provide versioning information.
data-management-platformcdp-public-cloudsecurecloud-servicesdata-management
sxxgrc/molecule-restaurant
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:42 commits, 206 pushes, 3 branches in 26 days
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