For the past 16 years, alastor1729 has been a Senior Backend Engineer (mainly in the Scala && Python programming ecosystem) and Senior Data Engineer.

Overall, alastor1729 (R.W.) has:

• 10 Years and 3 Month of Professional Scala 2.12 experience:
  • 24 months of Cats / FP Cats Effect / FS2 / http4s / doobie JDBC layer;
  • 26 months of Lightbend-Akka-Actors-toolkit-library;
  • 73 months of Apache Spark Scala-delvelopment-experience (Spark version 3.5.0)

• 7 Years and 4 Months of SBT experience with SDKMAN-CLI-tool;
• 6 Years and 3 Month of Professional Apache Maven experience;
• 6 Years and 2 Months of Python / PySpark experience;
• 4 Years and 6 Months of Professional Java 6 / 8 experience.

• 15 years of Linux OS && MacOS experience.
• 15 years of Professional Git / GitHub Enterprise / PR Reviews.
• 15 years of working within the Agile / Scrum / Kanban environments.

• 15 years of working with RDBMS (specifically PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle Database, Apache Spark SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, SQLite).
• 15 years of Bash Script / Shell Script work experience.
• 14 years of Professional JSON && CSV experience.
• 14 years of RESTful APIs design & development experience.

• 13 years of AWS && Azure cloud-based-infrastructure experience:
  • Azure SQL-Managed-Instances;
  • Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2);
  • Azure Cosmos DB && Azure Storage Explorer && Delta Lake.

• 13 years of distributed-system-design, CI/CD principle, and microservices architecture experience within different US E-commerce Ecosystems.

• 8 years of Databricks Data Engineering (with Spark UI) experience:
  • 3 years of AWS Databricks experience;
  • 5 years of Azure Databricks experience (with DBR-Unity-Catalog Training).