About

Chris Nauroth is an experienced and adaptable software architect and technical lead with over 21 years of relevant experience. He has a broad skill set and his recent focus has been on Apache Hadoop and its surrounding ecosystem, as well as multiple AWS service offerings. He is an experienced open-source contributor and an Apache Software Foundation member. Chris is a committer/PMC member on multiple Apache projects, including Hadoop and ZooKeeper, and is a frequent conference presenter and technical mentor. Chris's specialties include big data and NoSQL infrastructure, object-oriented design, Java, Spring Framework, Python, C++, SQL, JSON, bash, REST web services, Hadoop, ZooKeeper, Cassandra, S3, DynamoDB, EMR, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, Tomcat, Jetty, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Git, and Linux. Currently, Chris works as a Staff Software Engineer at Google Cloud Dataproc. In the past, he has worked at Disney as a Senior Staff Software Architect for Personalization, Messaging & Social. At Disney, he led a project on a service's compliance with California Consumer Privacy Act, launched a transition from legacy Apple Push Notification service protocol to newer HTTP/2 protocol, reduced garbage collection overhead of a critical service, and developed a GraphQL service to support querying user preferences and reading progress in support of the Marvel Unlimited comic reading app. Chris has also worked at The Apache Software Foundation as an Apache Hadoop Committer/PMC, Apache ZooKeeper Committer/PMC, and Apache Software Foundation Member. He has contributed to core Apache Hadoop since May 2013, and is a regular contributor on Hadoop Common, HDFS, YARN, and MapReduce. He is also an Apache ZooKeeper committer and PMC member since August 2016, and an Apache Yetus committer and PMC member since September 2015. Chris has a strong tech stack that includes Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Hadoop, AWS, SQL, Cassandra, Spring, Big Data, Java, NoSQL, Jenkins, Web, infra, Python, test, MongoDB, Kafka, Microservices, and Mobile. His relevant experience is 21.54 years.