Vanessa Vuibert
Staff Production Engineer at Shopify
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolVanessa Vuibert is a Staff Production Engineer with 7 years of experience building and optimizing large-scale streaming platforms, currently leading Kafka and Flink reliability and cost-saving initiatives at Shopify. She combines hands-on systems work—traffic management, capacity planning, topic/security management—and 24x7 on-call ownership with mentoring and cross-team design leadership. Her projects have delivered measurable impact including 10x latency improvements for Kafka in regional failures, halving consumer latency, and automating resilience for peak events like Black Friday/Cyber Monday. Earlier roles included automating ETL testing and building operational tooling with Kubernetes, Ansible, Rundeck and Spark, reflecting a strong SRE+data engineering blend. With a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill, she brings rigorous engineering fundamentals to streaming platform challenges and an appetite for pragmatic automation that empowers non-ops teams.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering at University of New OrleansBachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering at Escuela Superior Politécnica del LitoralMaster’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
kafka10
sarama10
ruby10
go10
ruby-client10
apache-kafka10
deprecated10
python9
command-line-tool8
kafka-cluster8
cruisecontrol8
self-healing8
kubernetes-namespace8
kafka-consumer7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/ruby-kafka
Aug 2019 - May 2022
A Ruby client library for Apache Kafka
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 9 months
apache-kafkaruby-client
Shopify/Burrow
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Kafka Consumer Lag Checking
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
kafka-consumer
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