Tim Sawicki
Python SDK Engineer at Quix
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTim Sawicki is a Python SDK Engineer with a background in building end-to-end data processing pipelines and containerized microservices for distributed systems like Kubernetes and OpenShift. Over six years across roles in data science and software engineering, he drove Red Hat Marketing’s move from batch to real-time Kafka-based ETL—co-designing an open-source Python Kafka client that reduced processing latency from over a day to minutes. Comfortable across healthcare, marketing, and retail data sources, he blends data science instincts with pragmatic engineering best practices, CI/CD, and security-minded deployments. Based in Durham, NC, he favors production-ready solutions and has a master’s in Operations Research, which informs his analytical approach to system design and performance tuning.
2 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Operations Research, 3.7 GPA, Master's degree, Operations Research, 3.7 GPA at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, 3.74 GPA, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, 3.74 GPA at University of North Carolina at Asheville
English
Github Skills (21)
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
event-driven-architecture10
machine-learning10
kafka10
explore10
stream-processor10
stream-processing10
streaming-data10
ats9
portal9
parsing8
validation8
json-schema7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
quixio/quix-streams
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
Python Streaming DataFrames for Kafka
Contributions:2 releases, 218 reviews, 184 PRs in 1 year 9 months
data-engineeringdata-intensive-applicationsdata-scienceevent-driven-architecturekafka
tim-quix/sdf_poc
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 21 days
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