Ema Orhian
Software Engineering Manager at GResearch
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEma Orhian is a Software Engineering Manager based in London with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver large-scale, distributed data systems. She combines hands-on expertise in Scala, Spark, Kafka and cloud-based data platforms with a track record of productionizing big data pipelines and real-time streaming at firms like Worldpay, Barclays and G-Research. An active open-source contributor and former main committer, she authored a high‑scale REST interface for Spark SQL and co‑wrote a chapter in "Spark: Big Data Cluster Computing in Production," reflecting deep practical knowledge of Spark internals and operational concerns. Ema has also been a visible community builder—organizing meetups, speaking at international conferences and serving on Berlin Buzzwords program committees—so she bridges engineering, advocacy and mentorship. Notably, her background spans both low-level systems work (custom Cassandra tooling, provisioning and DevOps) and higher-level analytic platforms, enabling her to architect solutions that balance performance, resilience and developer ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Inginerie Software, Master, Inginerie Software at West University of TimisoaraGithub contributions (5)
VeritoneAlpha/jaws-spark-sql-rest
Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 release, 261 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 3 months
emaorhian/hdfs-tachyon-file-browser
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 4 pushes in 2 months
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