Ahmad Alkilani
Sr. Data Engineer, DSE
Santa Clarita, California, United States
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Top SchoolAhmad Alkilani is a senior data engineer and architect with over a decade of hands-on experience building large-scale distributed data platforms, currently shaping data engineering at Netflix. He combines deep technical expertise in streaming and batch systems (Akka, Scala, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra) with proven leadership in product-facing analytics—designing recommendation engines and data backbones that drove measurable revenue uplift at Realtor.com and DreamWorks. An author and frequent conference speaker, he has written practical guides on Lambda architectures, Scalding, and SQL on Hadoop that reflect his focus on production-ready, scalable patterns. Comfortable translating executive goals into technical strategies, he bridges BI, ETL, ML pipelines, and MPP/NoSQL architectures to deliver robust data products. Based in Santa Clarita, he pairs a pragmatic engineering approach with a long history of consulting and systems integration across enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Jordan University of Science and Technology
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (53)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aalkilani/pluralsight
Aug 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 4 years 2 months
pluralsight
ForestFlow/ForestFlow
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
ForestFlow is a policy-driven Machine Learning Model Server. It is an LF AI Foundation incubation project.
Contributions:5 reviews, 68 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 8 months
policypolicy-drivenh2omodel-deploymentmachine-learning
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