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 (141)
junit-test10
python10
testing10
databases10
junit10
docker-container10
test-container10
streaming10
integration-testing10
big-data10
docker-compose10
kafka-streams10
sql10
test-automation10
jvm10
Programming languages (9)
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
raminqaf/flink
Jun 2025 - Jul 2026
Apache Flink
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 186 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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