Steve Ungerer
Principal Engineer at Brandwatch
Hampstead, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSteve Ungerer is a Principal Engineer with over two decades of experience architecting and tuning high-performance Java systems, currently solving large-scale social data problems at Brandwatch. He specializes in Java 1.8+, core technologies like Spring, Hibernate, Lucene and Netty, and production data platforms built on Postgres and extensive AWS services. His background spans enterprise J2EE, GIS mapping and web development, and leadership roles where he bridged hands-on implementation with team direction. An active back-end contributor to projects such as Redisson, he has improved core Redis client features including scored sorted sets and Elasticache replication support. Steve prefers hard, novel engineering challenges and avoids rehashing solved problems or dynamic typing, reflecting a focus on predictable, performant systems. Based in Hampstead, NH, he combines deep technical breadth with practical production instincts shaped by long-term work on large indexes of social media content.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Cornell University
Stackoverflow
26reputation
1kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (18)
caching10
redis10
key-value10
keyv10
redis-client10
java10
javas10
val10
disk-cache10
distribute10
web-cache10
object-cache10
memory-cache10
elasticache10
spring8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
redisson/redisson
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Redisson - Valkey and Redis Java client. Real-Time Data Platform. Sync/Async/RxJava/Reactive API. Over 50 Valkey and Redis based Java objects and services: Set, Multimap, SortedSet, Map, List, Queue, Deque, Semaphore, Lock, AtomicLong, Map Reduce, Bloom filter, Spring, Tomcat, Scheduler, JCache API, Hibernate, RPC, local cache..
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the implementation and modification of core features within the Redisson Java client. Their commits focused on enhancing the functionality of Redisson's Scored Sorted Set and Elasticache Replication Group server configuration, introducing DNS monitoring capabilities. They also refactored code, improved documentation and fixed some non-functional aspects of the project.
jedismemoryrpclockredis-sentinel
chexagon/redis-session-manager
May 2015 - Oct 2019
A tomcat8 session manager providing session replication via persistence to redis
Contributions:1 review, 94 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 5 months
redissession-storesession-cookiesession-managerredis-search
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.