Highly accomplished Senior Software/Data Engineer with: - 10+ years of experience leading cutting-edge projects at Tabular (acquired by Databricks), Shopify, Flipp, BBM, etc.

Experience

ShopifySenior Software Engineer

2024 — Now

Building a real-time, streaming platform.

Tech stack: Flink, Kafka, BigQuery, Java, Kubernetes, etc.

The Apache Software FoundationOSS Contributor

2020 — Now

Contributed features to various open-source projects including:

https://github.com/apache/spark/commits?author=fqaiser94

https://github.com/apache/kafka/commits?author=fqaiser94

https://github.com/apache/iceberg/commits?author=fqaiser94

https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/commits?author=fqaiser94

https://github.com/tabular-io/iceberg-kafka-connect/commits?author=fqtab

https://github.com/apache/flink-kubernetes-operator/commits?author=fqaiser94

Tabular (now part of Databricks)Senior Software Engineer

2024 — 2024

Worked closely with the founders and OSS community to develop various features for Apache Iceberg.

Tech stack: Java, Iceberg, Kafka Connect, Strimzi, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, etc.

ShopifySenior Data Platform Engineer

2021 — 2024

Architected real-time streaming systems to ingest petabytes of data from Kafka into our datalake (Iceberg, BigQuery).

Tech stack: Kafka (Connect, Consumer, Producer), Iceberg, Spark, Scala (Cats Effect, FS2, http4s), Beam, GCP, Kubernetes, Podman.

FlippSenior Data Engineer

2020 — 2021

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Decomposed monolithic batch billing system into a set of real-time, event-driven micro-services.

Tech stack: Scala, Kafka Streams, Spark, Airflow, Databricks, AWS, Delta Lake, CircleCi, etc.

Education

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Bachelor of Science (BSc)

2012 — 2015

Udacity

Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree - Term 1

2017 — 2017

Experience+7

Education

Bachelor of Science (BSc)

Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree - Term 1

Experience