Brian Olsen

Designing an open integrated software and hardware standard to empower every human to run open source software on cheap local hardware, with further aspirations of multisite private networks and storage replicas.

Through the use of interoperable standards, we will make sensible defaults that enable the product to work out-of-the-box, with flexible hooks to customize deployment where needed. If yo

Refactored the Apache Iceberg documentation and improved the build process for releases.

Coordinated monthly Iceberg syncs

Formed the Tabular Developer Relations team strategy. Built consensus around the role of Developer Relations at Tabular with stakeholders and different departments. Created blog and training materials around Iceberg on the Tabular site. Managed tri-weekly community syncs, notes, and posted recaps on YouTube and the dev mailing list. Designed and moved the Apache Iceberg documentation to a new buil

Contributing and reviewing code, primarily on the Trino Elasticsearch connector.

Posting issues when something is missing.

Work with the Wikipedia community to establish a seperate Trino wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trino_(SQL_query_engine).

Organized and hosted multiple Trino summits both virtual and in-person. With attendance up to 1500 virtually and 250 in-person.

See my Starburst de

Writing bi weekly blogs and giving okay advice to engineers about how to run and tune their Trino clusters.

Educating engineers about Trino on Slack, GitHub, Twitter, and Stack Overflow.

Creating and hosting a biweekly broadcast called Trino Community Broadcast via Twitch, YouTube, and LinkedIn that talks all things Trino and Commander Bun Bun!

Grew the Trino YouTube channel from 140 to 1,240 s

Created a new data lifecycle pipeline that minimized duplicate storage of 60TB of data while offloading pressure on flume ingestion.

Worked on a federated search utility that uses a JDBC wrapper around Trino JDBC, which is a translation layer that exposes views based on metadata of which backend system contains certain partitions of the data.

Redesigned data exporting service to use Hive replacing custom written MapReduce processes leading to faster responses via query optimization.

Developed, tested, and debugged spring boot services to store and query data from technologies like Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and Mongo to provide expedient searching capabilities.

Coordinated the data migration of an 8TB index when upgrading between incomp

Worked as a research assistant for the VACCINE research Center of Excellence funded by the Department of Homeland Security. The goal of this lab is to create visualizations for different types of analysis in various domains so that specialists will be able to quickly understand current data and make predictions based on historical data.

Developed the prototype that became the web system used in V

Worked as a .NET Software Development Intern using C#, Java, HTML and javascript(jQuery). The core software was Microsoft's MVC framework.

Ran through user scenarios to test various modules within our applications.

Worked with an automated cloud testing suite called SOASTA to run established scenarios automatically.

Wrote a simulated thermostat sensor that took real data of various heating a

Worked as a Java developer for a front-end application called Scottrader that assists in online trading. The code UI functionality extends from the swing class and other basic java components. Working at Scottrade opened my mind to many problems software engineers are facing today and became an outlet to exercise the methods and skills gained from my classes.

Increased our code testing coverage

Established satellite communications during field operations that enabled an integrated operations environment for officers to communicate and visualize infantry troop movement.

Supervised over the training of a data networking team comprised of fifteen marines.

Designated each marine to certain tasks to ensure smooth workflow, as well as, look after the well being of subordinates.

Performed

Assisted the Transition Assistance Program manager in the design, development and implementation of customer applications using off-the-shelf vendor software packages.

Participated in a variety of projects utilizing computer skills to provide assistance in evaluating requirements and procedures.

Assisted with the preparation of technical reports for Transition Assistance Program manager using

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Issued Oct 2016