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 (11)
java10
apache9
apache-nifi9
hortonworks9
deployer7
bosh7
atlas4
alarm1
spark1
hadoop1
druid1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vvaks0/CreditCardTransactionMonitor
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 289 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
vakshorton/CloudBreakArtifacts
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 420 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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