Ramin Gharib
Senior Software Engineer at Confluent
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRamin Gharib is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 9 years of experience building data pipelines and cloud-native distributed systems, now contributing at Confluent. He specializes in Kafka-centric architectures, DevOps, and deployment on Kubernetes/GCP, and has a track record of shipping open-source tooling around Kafka (co-developer of bakdata/quick). Ramin pairs backend engineering with data-focused design—moving from Android and data analyst roles into stream processing and Gradle/Kotlin tooling—demonstrating a pragmatic full-stack mindset. He increased test coverage dramatically when converting an Android app to Kotlin, showing attention to quality as well as scalability. A Hasso Plattner Institute M.Sc. graduate, he brings both academic rigor and hands-on experience deploying resilient distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - M.Sc. IT Systems Engineering, Master of Science - M.Sc. IT Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
German, English
Stackoverflow
55reputation
12kreached
6answers
2questions
Github Skills (186)
testing10
databases10
junit10
docker-container10
integration-testing10
docker-compose10
kafka-streams10
test-automation10
kafka-consumer10
kafka-connect10
selenium-webdriver10
jvm10
kafka10
apache10
java10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
raminqaf/testcontainers-java
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
elseinstancestest-automationjava-librarybrowsers
bakdata/kpops-examples
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
KPOps Example Pipelines
Contributions:24 reviews, 16 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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