Niraj Zade Email & Phone Number

Email - niraj[at]theniraj[dot]comIf you have open ended problems with unknown path to solution, I'm your guy.I work at the intersection of data and computing. Typically help companies iterate through initial architectures and prototypes, for handling data acquisition and processing at any scale.Have worked with both startups and enterprises, and can self-manage execution and delivery if needed. A term for this that you might know is "Manager of one".I'm a generalist technologist at heart, specializing in data storage and processing. I bring what's called as "range". Over the past decade and half, have moved through the layers of abstraction - from analog hardware, to assembly on micro-controllers, to high-level software on the cloud.I typically adapt to a projects' languages, frameworks and systems within 1-2 weeks. A result of a lifetime of learning and tinkering.Programming: Python, Pyspark, SQLBig Data: Databricks Spark, ETL, Pnadas, KafkaDatastores: Kafka, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Cassandra etcReverse ETL: Fastapi, bespoke frameworksCoud: Azure, AWS, VPC providers (Hetzner, OVH, DigitalOcean etc)Tools/Operations: Git, , Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes(working knowledge)Soft Skills: Extracting requirements, lubricating communication between teamsParticularly skilled at root cause analysis for bug hunting (coming up with isolated failure scenarios), and finding systemic limits & breaking points (with empirical numbers).Website: theniraj.comEmail - niraj [at] theniraj [dot] com"Whoever owns storage, owns computing"