Reza Rokni
Snr Staff Developer Advocate Dataflow
Hove, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolReza Rokni is a senior staff Developer Advocate for Dataflow at Google with nine years of hands-on experience helping customers design and run large-scale data, analytics, and ML workloads on Google Cloud. He blends solution architecture, sales engineering, and product management expertise to simplify complex distributed data problems into practical production-ready solutions. Based in Hove, UK, he specializes in BigQuery, Cloud Dataflow and open-source data technologies and has contributed backend improvements to the widely used Apache Beam project, notably around subprocess integration and external native library handling. Reza’s career began in Oracle consulting and product management, giving him deep foundations in enterprise systems, collaboration platforms, and performance engineering. He enjoys finding elegant, minimal solutions to tricky technical challenges and translating them into customer success and adoption.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc.(Hons) Information Systems, 1st Class Honours, B.Sc.(Hons) Information Systems, 1st Class Honours at University of Leeds
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Github Skills (20)
beam10
java10
javas10
beamng10
build-system9
big-data9
batch8
batching8
c-language7
cprogramming-language7
streaming7
apache-beam6
windowing6
apache-beam-io6
google-cloud-dataflow6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/beam
Sep 2017 - Apr 2022
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:112 reviews, 30 commits, 27 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Reza focused on enhancements and modifications within the Apache Beam codebase, primarily related to the "subprocess" functionality. They addressed issues by removing and refactoring dependencies. The user also worked on modifying example pipelines and adjusting configuration options to integrate and manage external C++ libraries within Beam. These changes involved updating existing code and removing generated files.
golangpythonstreaming-databeambatch
GoogleCloudPlatform/dataflow-sample-applications
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 41 reviews, 161 commits in 2 years 2 months
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