Samir Ketema
API Engineer at /dev/color
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSamir Ketema is an API Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and streaming systems for companies like Meroxa, Slack, and Disney, and currently contributing to Supabase from Vancouver. He specializes in APIs, real-time data pipelines, ETL, IoT, and infrastructure, with hands-on experience operating Kafka, Storm, and AWS at scale (processing ~1TB/day in production). At Meroxa he helped simplify real-time data orchestration, and at Slack and Neighborly he focused on resilient backend services and GraphQL/Postgres stacks. Beyond product engineering, he mentors and champions Black software engineers as a long-time /dev/color council member and A* program facilitator. Samir combines deep systems experience with practical deployment and on-call ownership, making him a strong bridge between data infrastructure and developer-facing APIs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Cypress Creek High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Central Florida
English, Spanish, Amharic
Github Skills (60)
data-stream10
kafka10
conduit10
aerospike10
jvm9
kafka-connect9
sink9
kafka-connector9
streaming-data9
go9
etl9
data-streams9
data-pipeline9
stream-processing9
data-integration8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
samirketema/Duly-Noted
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
samirketema/PL-0-Compiler
Oct 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 9 months
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