Joe Crobak

Washington D.C. Metro Area United States

United States Digital Service

Technology / Software / Internet

I’m passionate about creating scalable and efficient software for the toughest challenges in distributed systems. I enjoy participating in all phases of software engineering, especially system evaluation, architecture design, and deployment. I strive to automate everything and be involved with all parts of systems including production support. Specialties: • The Hadoop stack: HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Luigi, Kafka, Zookeeper. • High-performance database and distributed caching systems: Memcached, MySQL, HBase • Java & Scala • Linux system administration, deployment, and automation using Puppet and Chef