Zach York
Senior Software Development Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZach York is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale backend systems, currently based in Seattle and working at AWS. He combines production engineering at Amazon with active open-source stewardship as an Apache HBase committer, contributing bug fixes, test infrastructure improvements, and WAL/filesystem enhancements to a widely used distributed database. His background spans deep systems work on Hadoop/Hive integrations and pragmatic configuration and testing fixes in Hue, showing a focus on reliability and developer ergonomics. Earlier roles include research and embedded projects at the University of Wisconsin, where he developed low-level C/Arduino systems and web tools, reflecting a hands-on affinity for both hardware-adjacent and cloud software. Colleagues value him for navigating complex distributed-system failure modes and making incremental, high-impact improvements. He blends applied research experience with production-grade engineering to improve performance and operability in data infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.S, Computer Engineering, B.S, Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin
Github Skills (15)
javas10
hbase10
databases10
hive10
filesystem10
hadoop10
wal10
python10
java10
database10
testing10
tez9
data-warehouse8
sql8
query-builder8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hbase
Jan 2017 - Oct 2021
Apache HBase
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 93 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the Apache HBase project, focusing on fixing bugs and improving the system's core functionalities. Their contributions involved modifications to the testing infrastructure and the implementation of features like specifying a WAL directory outside of the root directory. They also addressed issues related to exception handling within the regionserver, which showcases their involvement in the core operations and maintenance of the system. Their work spans various areas, including file system utilities, WAL implementation, and overall performance optimization.
apache-hbaseapachedatabasejavahbase
cloudera/hue
Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
Open source SQL Query Assistant service for Databases/Warehouses
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the `beeswax` and `hadoop` applications within the Hue project, focusing on bug fixes and improvements related to Hive and Hadoop integrations. Their work involved modifying tests to handle specific scenarios, such as dealing with temporary Hive directories and addressing issues with Tez execution engine. The user also made enhancements to configuration handling, including removing a row limit for HiveServer2 configurations and adding configurable classpaths.
querysql-editormysqlassistantsql
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