Andrew A Lamb

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Software engineer focused on systems software and database internals for over 22 years. Experienced in environments ranging from two-person startups, large multinational corporations, and worldwide distributed open source projects in roles including architect, manager, and VP. He writes papers, gives talks, and blogs about software engineering and databases.

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I am a Staff Engineer at InfluxData, working on the InfluxDB 3.0 time series database in Rust and helping steer the open source projects they are built on. I am part of the PMC (governance committees) of Apache DataFusion, Apache Arrow, and Apache Parquet, and a Member of the Apache Software Foundation. Most of my time is spent contributing to and maintaining the code and community of DataFusion, and arrow-rs, the Rust implementations of Arrow and Parquet. With Evan Kaplan, I coined the term FDAP Stack to describe modern systems composed with these reusable components.

I am a huge believer of the power of the open source model to create and maintain high quality software and the communities that sustain them over the long term. It is hard to overstate the enjoyment of working with great developers from around the world on software that powers thousands of companies and countless users each day.

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