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 (39)
client-library10
kafka10
apache10
sarama10
sink10
python-client10
go10
lag10
producer10
golang10
ruby-client10
faust10
apache-kafka10
deprecated10
ruby9
Programming languages (4)
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-kafkakafka-consumerclient-libraryruby-clientruby
Shopify/Burrow
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Kafka Consumer Lag Checking
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
kafka-consumercheckingconsumer-lagconsumer-lag-checkingkafka
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