Jack Vanlightly

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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain19 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in distributed systems engineering and testing.
  • Proven track record in formal verification and research.
  • Strong background in messaging systems and databases.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on distributed systems and messaging technologies.

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About

Things that I know/love most: messaging systems, databases, distributed systems engineering and testing, formal verification, research/analysis, and writing.

Experience

19 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Confluent

3 roles

Senior Principal Technologist

Promoted

Feb 2026Present · 2 mos

Principal Technologist

Feb 2024Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Staff Technologist

Feb 2022Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Technology strategist and distributed systems researcher. Work across the organization from field operations, to engineering to product.

Splunk

Principal Software Engineer

Oct 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Worked on Apache BookKeeper as a committer and Apache Pulsar as a contributor. Projects included:
  • formal verification of the BookKeeper protocol and subsequent fixes.
  • improving the observability of BookKeeper to aid us during production incidents (using USE method performance troubleshooting).
  • formally verifying the changes to the BookKeeper protocol to allow it run without the journal and assisted in the implementation.
  • contributing changes to the Pulsar C++ client.

Vmware

Staff Software Engineer

May 2020Oct 2020 · 5 mos

  • RabbitMQ core team member.

Pivotal software, inc.

Principal Software Engineer

Sep 2019May 2020 · 8 mos · Barcelona

  • Member of the RabbitMQ core team.

Sii concatel

Technical lead and architect

Nov 2013Sep 2019 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Barcelona

  • Roles including architect, technical lead, trainer and data engineer.
  • Specialist in data systems:
  • SQL Server performance.
  • Database integrations.
  • RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka.
  • Neo4J.
  • Other experience:
  • AWS cloud automation (Terraform, Ansible, AWS CLI, bash, python).
  • Airbus ARINC data bus real-time consumption/decoding in C++ with ZeroMQ.
  • C# library development.
  • Search and analytics with Elasticsearch.
  • Data engineering pipelines

Dimension data europe

Software Developer

Jul 2008Jul 2013 · 5 yrs · Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

  • SQL Server performance.
  • C# business application development.

Ahorro corporación

Junior Developer

Feb 2006Feb 2007 · 1 yr · Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

  • Development of real-time trading software in C++ with Tibco RV for messaging.

Jobsite

Student Developer

Jul 2001Jul 2002 · 1 yr · Hampshire

  • Java development of client-server systems with Oracle database.

Education

Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

Bachelor of Science (BSc) — Computer Science

Jan 2003Jan 2005

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