Kaxil Naik
Senior Director Of Engineering at The Apache Software Foundation
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKaxil Naik is a Senior Director of Engineering based in London with over a decade of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms, currently leading Airflow engineering at Astronomer. A long-standing Apache Airflow committer and PMC member, he has led multiple Airflow releases and contributes deep expertise in database migrations, SQL, and workflow orchestration for one of the most widely used open-source schedulers. He blends hands-on data engineering and DevOps skills—Terraform, Ansible, GCP, Spark—with applied ML and graph analytics experience from consulting roles at Data Reply and Quantexa. Google Cloud and Spark certifications plus a Neo4j professional credential underscore his practical, platform-first approach to production ML and ETL systems. Notably, he has built cloud-agnostic, ISO-27001 hosting platforms and contributed Google Cloud integrations back to the Airflow community, demonstrating both product leadership and open-source stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Data Science & Analytics, Master of Science (MSc), Data Science & Analytics at Royal Holloway, University of LondonBachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical Engineering at Gujarat Technological University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (25)
data-migration10
database-administration10
airflow10
google-cloud-platform9
authentication9
google-bigquery9
apache-spark9
python9
smtp9
databases9
sqlalchemy9
sql9
alembic9
parallel-processing9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Nov 2017 - Apr 2025
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:20 releases, 5443 reviews, 4652 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kaxil primarily contributed to data engineering tasks within the Apache Airflow project. Their commits focused on tasks like adding documentation, making data migrations compatible and fixing bugs. The user interacted with modules related to the database migrations and the SQL queries. The contributions show the user's expertise in the database infrastructure and handling data.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
astronomer/astronomer-airflow-version-check
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
Plugin to check if new version of Astronomer Certified Airflow is available
Contributions:8 releases, 18 reviews, 19 commits in 1 year 7 months
astronomercertifiedairflow
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