Vadim Vaks
Principal Engineer at Collibra
Upper Southampton Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVadim Vaks is a Principal Engineer and technology strategist with a decade of experience architecting cloud-native platforms, distributed in-memory computing, and event-driven systems. He has led architecture and strategy across roles at Collibra, Kurrent (Event Store), Hortonworks, Oracle, and Comcast, blending hands-on platform design with operational rigor around capacity, availability, and continuity. Vadim’s expertise spans virtualization, containers and schedulers, microservices and SOA, data grids and Spark, and complex event processing—paired with strong ITIL-informed service management. He’s known for translating business needs into resilient platform roadmaps and for driving adoption of event-based processing at enterprise scale. Based in Upper Southampton Township, PA, he combines deep technical breadth with clear communication and a relentless work ethic that accelerates delivery. Lesser-known: he consistently bridges R&D and operations, ensuring architectures are not just elegant but operable and measurable in production.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at Drexel University
English, Russian
Github Skills (14)
hortonworks10
hdf10
hdp10
java10
apache9
apache-nifi9
deployer8
data-platform8
atlas3
nextjs2
alarm1
spark1
hadoop1
druid1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vakshorton/CloudBreakArtifacts
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 420 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
vvaks0/CreditCardTransactionMonitor
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Credit Card Transaction Monitor is an example of a Modern Data Application running on the Hortonworks Connected Platform (HDP/HDF). The application shows how a financial institution can use Hortonworks Data Flow and Hortonworks Data Platform to protect credit card customers from credit card fraud.
Contributions:12 commits, 289 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
data-platformhdfhdphortonworks
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