Davor Karasic
Engineering Manager EMEA Central Region Driving Reliable & Scalable Solutions At Google
Seattle, Washington, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavor Karasic is an experienced network engineering leader with 11+ years delivering large-scale, reliable infrastructure across EMEA for Google, blending hands-on technical depth in optical transport, routing and data center operations with people and program leadership. He built tooling to automate regional reporting and has driven commissioning and testing of routers, DWDM and cloud networking equipment across global regions, reducing downtime and improving operational quality. A former Ericsson transport engineer and co-founder/CEO of Kaskada, he pairs carrier-grade networking expertise with startup product sensibilities and significant open-source contributions to Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow. Comfortable coding and contributing to backend systems, he has improved Dataflow runners, example pipelines and observability—an unusual combination that helps him bridge infrastructure, software and organizational goals.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Radio Television and Digital Communication, Master's degree Radio Television and Digital Communication at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER)High school graduate Electrical and Computing Engineering, High school graduate Electrical and Computing Engineering at Technical School Bjelovar
Croatian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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google-bigquery
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Github Skills (21)
dataflow-programming10
dataflow10
google-cloud-dataflow10
java10
javas10
sdk10
google-bigquery9
pipelining9
pipe9
pipeline9
refactoring8
logging8
documentation8
refactor8
apache-beam6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK
Dec 2014 - May 2017
Google Cloud Dataflow provides a simple, powerful model for building both batch and streaming parallel data processing pipelines.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 217 commits, 115 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Davor primarily contributed to the Dataflow Java SDK by implementing or modifying example programs and cleaning up checkstyle warnings. Their work included creating and modifying example pipelines, such as a TF-IDF example, and addressing code style issues to improve the codebase's quality. The user's contributions also involved refactoring and general code improvements in the SDK's core components.
stream-processingbeambatchdata-processingparallel
apache/beam
Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:447 commits, 44 PRs, 970 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Davor contributed to the Apache Beam project by implementing a service account email functionality and a state update in the Google Cloud Dataflow Java Runner. Additionally, the user added a logging statement for job states to improve debugging. The user also made several changes to documentation, including updating the menu and content.
golangpythonstreaming-databeambatch
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