Shane Kumpf is a Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently driving platform and orchestration work at Cloudera. He blends deep Unix/Linux and middleware expertise (WebSphere, AIX/HP-UX, RHEL) with hands-on Hadoop/YARN and container runtime contributions, including notable fixes to Apache Hadoop’s Docker/YARN integration. Comfortable from startup founding roles to Fortune 100 analytics teams, Shane is known for shipping pragmatic automation and utility tooling that tame complex operational challenges. A longtime Apache Hadoop committer, he frequently surfaces hard-to-diagnose container and runtime issues into durable fixes rather than band-aids. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he pairs a relentless curiosity and hobbyist tinkering ethos with an outcomes-first work ethic that helps teams succeed in both architecture and the trenches.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree Web Development, Associate's Degree Web Development at Heartland Community College
Unix System Specialist, Unix System Specialist at Illinois Central College
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 & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Shane's contributions primarily involved enhancing the YARN orchestrator functionality within the Cloudbreak platform. They implemented features to support YARN, including the ability to specify HDP repositories and configuring Ambari. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to default images and instance group templates, ensuring the proper functioning of YARN-based deployments. Their work also included adding fields to the application detail response and modifying database schema for orchestrator support.
Contributions summary:Shane's contributions primarily involve the Docker runtime environment within the Apache Hadoop project, particularly focusing on YARN. They addressed issues related to Docker configuration, environment variables, and volume mounts, including the addition of default and tmpfs mounts. The user also contributed to improving the RegistryDNS functionality and enhancing error messages related to bind mounts in the container executor. Furthermore, they worked on the pluggability of linux container runtimes.
apachebig-datasparkhadoopjava
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Shane Kumpf - Principal Software Engineer at Cloudera