Tariq Abughofa
Prinicipal Data Platform Developer
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolTariq Abughofa is a Principal Data Platform Developer based in Montreal with a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade data systems and pipelines. He specializes in end-to-end automation, system thinking, and pragmatic platform engineering—designing bespoke solutions (including a fork of Airflow) to replace off-the-shelf tools for complex migrations and transformations. Tariq has hands-on expertise across the stack: Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes, Flask/React UIs, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and cloud storage patterns, and he’s comfortable hacking drivers and low-level integrations to solve messy real-world problems. His background spans large-scale ETL, data encryption/decryption workflows, and performance-driven multiprocessing and orchestration. Notably, he combined backend engineering with product-oriented UX by shipping a monitoring-enabled UI and running the full CI/CD/K8s lifecycle for migration tooling. Trained in data analytics (MSc) and software engineering, he pairs academic rigor with practical, production-focused delivery.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Software Engineering and Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Software Engineering and Information Systems at Damascus UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Data Analytics and Big Data, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Data Analytics and Big Data at Queen's University
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (87)
phantomjs10
rails10
headless-browser9
scriptable9
ruby9
react9
typescript9
validation8
open-source8
stream7
automation7
browser7
python7
queue7
react-hooks7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TariqAbughofa/active-audit
Jul 2016 - Sep 2019
ORM extension for Ruby on Rails to track model changes. It also supports keeping record of who made the changes and why.
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 3 years 2 months
keepingruby-on-railsrailsorm-extensionaudit
TariqAbughofa/incremental_distributed_wcc
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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