Atour Gourabi
Junior Software Engineer II at Booking.com
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAtour Gourabi is a Junior Software Engineer II based in Delft with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable back-end systems and user-focused services. A TU Delft Computer Science student with internships at Amazon and ASML and research work in programming languages, he blends academic rigor with production engineering. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like apache/parquet-java, improving compatibility and removing heavy Hadoop dependencies to make big-data tooling easier to adopt. At Booking.com he applies distributed computing and ML interests to craft efficient, stable user experiences at scale. Notably, his background spans both systems-level performance work—collecting Spark metrics—and user-facing provisioning systems, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on reliability and developer ergonomics.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma VWO, High School Diploma VWO at StanislascollegeLeiden UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands-Asia Honours Summer School
Spanish, English, Dutch
Github Skills (8)
parquet10
javas10
java10
fileio9
file-access9
file-processing9
file-handling9
hadoop8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/parquet-java
Aug 2023 - Jul 2024
Apache Parquet Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 16 PRs, 60 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Atour's commits focus on improving the Apache Parquet Java library by addressing issues related to Hadoop dependencies and deprecated interfaces. The contributions include removing the need for Hadoop installation for reading and writing Parquet files. The user also updated code related to local file handling and replacing deprecated interfaces. This suggests a focus on improving the library's compatibility and maintainability.
avroparquetapachebig-dataapache-parquet
amousavigourabi/parquet-mr
Jul 2023 - Mar 2024
Apache Parquet
Contributions:2 PRs, 115 pushes, 40 branches in 8 months
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