Willem Kaufmann
Senior Software Engineer at Redpanda Data
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWillem Kaufmann is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of industry experience blending computational science and high-performance systems engineering. Trained as a mechanical engineer with graduate research in CFD and numerical methods, he has a proven track record rewriting and optimizing large C++ codebases for distributed clusters and exposing core functionality to Python via pybind11. At Redpanda Data and previously Huawei Canada, he focuses on performant, production-grade software for data-intensive systems and collaborative development using Git. He brings uncommon depth in low-level performance tuning and parallel computing from his PhD and award-winning MASc work, paired with practical experience building streaming/teaching infrastructure during the pandemic. Based in Toronto, he combines research rigor with shipping experience across industry and academia, uniquely positioning him to bridge computational science and scalable systems engineering.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (70)
realtime10
zookeeper10
redpanda10
seastar10
stream-processing10
microservices10
cpp10
cloud-native10
streaming10
storage-engine10
api10
scalability10
kubernetes10
jvm10
kafka10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
WillemKauf/redpanda
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Contributions:847 pushes, 208 branches in 1 year
WillemKauf/AdventOfCode
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:144 commits, 133 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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