Iraj Hedayati
Data Platform Backend Engineer (Java, Spark)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolIraj Hedayati is a data platform backend engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native data systems and streaming pipelines using Java, Spark, Kafka, Parquet/Iceberg and Kubernetes. He has led production efforts that processed tens of billions of messages per day, cut infrastructure costs by half through efficient ingestion designs, and delivered predictive tooling to drive proactive marketing at enterprise scale. Currently at Apple, he focuses on high-performance data lakes and modern backend systems; previously he built k8s-native control planes for hundreds of streams at Paytm and an ingestion platform serving 500+ clients at Wunderkind. A seasoned instructor and researcher with two master’s degrees, he brings pedagogy and academic rigor to complex distributed problems and is comfortable translating theory (e.g., MapReduce optimizations) into production-grade implementations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Computer Engineering, Associate's degree Computer Engineering at Vali-e-Asr University of RafsanjanMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Concordia UniversityMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Qazvin Islamic Azad UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Sepahan
Persian, English
Stackoverflow
1,558reputation
620kreached
39answers
6questions
apache-kafka
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Github Skills (91)
google-bigquery10
avro9
sdk9
api9
api-client9
hbase9
google-cloud9
rest-api9
java-libraries9
hbase-client9
schema-org9
structured-data9
json-ld9
json9
java9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
irajhedayati/savro
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
Some Avro operations in Scala
Contributions:8 releases, 47 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 2 months
avroscala3scaladotty
irajhedayati/data-engineering
Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
A set of Data Engineering tools online for public use
Contributions:35 commits, 9 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 4 months
avrodata-engineeringjsonrest-api
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