Tanisha Faulkner
Senior Software Development Engineer at Triaplex, Inc.
Odenton, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolTanisha Faulkner is a Senior Software Development Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native systems, specializing in DevOps, CI/CD automation, and big data platforms. She has a strong background with Apache ecosystems (Accumulo, Hadoop, Fluo) from supporting government-scale deployments and has contributed bug fixes and test improvements to high-profile open-source projects like NSA's DataWave. Based in Busan, South Korea, she combines hands-on engineering with teaching experience as adjunct faculty, bringing clarity to complex systems through documentation and tooling. Tanisha’s work emphasizes reliability—preventing flaky tests, hardening evaluation filters, and streamlining pipelines—while she mentors teams in Agile and BDD practices. Her academic range, from applied IT to cyber investigations and software engineering masters-level study, underpins a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to building maintainable, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology, Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology, Software Engineering at University of Maryland University CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Forensic Science - Cyber Investigations, Master of Science - MS, Forensic Science - Cyber Investigations at University of BaltimoreInformation Technology, Information Technology at Anne Arundel Community CollegeInformation Technology, Information Technology at Community College of Baltimore County
Spanish, Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (8)
javas10
big-data10
accumulo10
java10
testing10
jexl9
junit9
query-optimization8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NationalSecurityAgency/datawave
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
DataWave is an ingest/query framework that leverages Apache Accumulo to provide fast, secure data access.
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 13 commits, 14 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tanisha's contributions primarily focused on improving test coverage and addressing specific issues within the DataWave framework. They updated existing tests to allow for longer wait times and added new tests to handle spaces in queries. Furthermore, the user contributed code to resolve a NullPointerException within the evaluation phase filter functions. They also made changes to prevent periodic test failures by adding prefixes to UUIDs in test configurations.
querysecurebigdataaccumuloleverages
plainolneesh/datawave
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
DataWave is an ingest/query framework that leverages Apache Accumulo to provide fast, secure data access.
Contributions:42 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 3 months
querysecureaccumuloleveragesdata-access
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