Behrouz Derakhshan
Principal Data Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBehrouz Derakhshan is a Principal Data Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, low-latency data products across e-commerce and research environments. He blends academic rigor from a PhD track at TU Berlin and research at DFKI with practical delivery at Wayfair and Rovio, designing APIs, event streams, and data layouts that meet strict SLAs. Known for mentoring engineers and driving cost-reduction and visibility initiatives, he excels at translating stakeholder needs into reliable production systems. His background in scalable ML pipelines and collaborative model deployment gives him a rare ability to bridge data science and engineering at scale. An animator of knowledge sharing, he routinely codifies best practices and architectural decisions to uplift team capability.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Technische Universität BerlinMaster of Computer Science Algorithms and Machine Learning, Master of Computer Science Algorithms and Machine Learning at University of HelsinkiBachelor of IT Software Engineering, Bachelor of IT Software Engineering at Multimedia University
Persian, English, German
Github Skills (33)
python10
java10
sql10
apache9
scala9
meta-learning9
big-data9
openml8
benchmarking8
emma8
apache-flink8
machine-learning6
computation5
data-science4
dsl4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TU-Berlin-DIMA/continuous-pipeline-deployment
Nov 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:531 commits, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 4 months
d-behi/spark
Dec 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:15 pushes in 1 year 1 month
apachebig-datasparkscalaapache-spark
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