Farooq Q.
Senior Software Engineer @Shopify
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Software Engineer @Shopify
Building real-time, streaming infrastructure. Tech stack: Java, Flink, Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.
EDUCATION
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Accounting and Finance
Udacity
Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree - Term 1
ABOUT FAROOQ Q.
Highly accomplished Senior Software/Data Engineer with- 10+ years of experience leading cutting-edge projects at Tabular (acquired by Databricks), Shopify, Flipp, BBM, etc- Deep expertise in big data, real-time streaming, distributed systems, and functional programming - A history of contributing back to the open source community including Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, etc- Strong soft skills including mentoring, project management, writing, teaching (University of Toronto SCS) etc- An always-curious, forever-learning mentality (currently exploring Rust, TLA+, Delta, etc.) Interested in challenging career opportunities involving- Real-time streaming, data ingestion, event driven micro services, CDC, Kafka, Flink, Beam, etc- Data lakehouse architecture, big data, open table formats, Spark, Iceberg, Delta, etc- Distributed systems e.g. exactly-once, TLA+, etc- Strongly typed programming languages e.g. Scala, Java, Rust, etc- Functional programming e.g. Cats Effect, ZIO, etc.
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