Niko Oliveira
Senior Software Development Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolNiko Oliveira is a senior software engineer based in Vancouver with a strong track record in distributed systems, Python, and Linux across both startup and enterprise environments. Currently a Senior SDE at Amazon and a core contributor to Apache Airflow—now serving on its PMC—he focuses on reliability, build/deployment automation, and developer experience for complex workflows. His open-source work on Airflow includes CI scripting, dependency management, and tooling to simplify local environment setup, reflecting a pragmatic DevOps mindset. With a B.Sc. in Computer Science from UBC and over a decade of engineering experience spanning Coho Data to Amazon, he combines production-grade systems design with hands-on operational improvements.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (12)
automation10
bash10
docker10
automations10
dockers10
cicd10
virtualenv9
python9
orchestration9
orchestra9
workflow-engine8
aws7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Feb 2021 - Apr 2025
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1534 reviews, 316 PRs, 166 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Niko made several commits focused on improving the build and deployment processes. They updated the version of a dependency and modified the project's setup file, indicating involvement in dependency management. They also introduced new features to facilitate the initialization of the local virtual environment, including extra package specification, and updated documentation related to virtual environments. Furthermore, they made changes to bash scripts used by the continuous integration pipeline.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
o-nikolas/airflow
Jun 2021 - Apr 2023
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Contributions:8 PRs, 104 pushes, 56 branches in 1 year 10 months
monitorapacheprogrammaticallyapache-airflowairflow
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