NIRAJ ZADE
Senior Data Engineer | Software Engineer
I help companies build centralized data lakehouses by gathering data from disparate sources (APIs, databases etc), to enable data science & data driven business decisions. Without breaking the bank.
Have spent more than a decade working through software, ~4 years of it within tech companies. Have built for enterprises, startups, and myself (indie development).
Tech I most frequently work with: Spark, FastAPI, Python, SQL, Azure (and also AWS), Airflow, Docker
I simply enjoy computers. A LOT. Way too much actually.
If computing wasn't a career - I'd be doing some other job in the day, and be glued to the computer at the night.
I haven't found any other line of work that's so (frustratingly) loveable.
I'm glad the world has a path to turn this addiction/compulsion into a career.
SqlServer - All date & time formatters
2025 Jul 10 | 3min
Spark Microbook
2025 Oct 16 | 32min
Spark performance optimization compendium
2025 Oct 11 | 5min
Spark join strategies
2024 Jan 22 | 16min
Unicode string normalization schemes in Python
2024 May 06 | 8min
Python gotchas compilation
2023 Sep 17 | 7min
SSH notes
2024 Sep 22 | 2min
Lecture - You and your research by Dr. Richard Hamming
2024 Oct 14 | 1hr 36min
Why charge more as an engineer
2025 Oct 13 | 8min
Postgres - index types and usage scenarios
2024 Oct 13 | 8min
Catalyzing research within India
2025 Aug 25 | 1min
Links collection
2025 Jun 15 | 4min
Papers, books, talks etc
2025 Jun 02 | 4min
JWT - a quick overview of its working and encryption algorithms
2024 Apr 02 | 15min
Isolates+storage over http+orchestrators is the future that has arrived
2023 Jan 03 | 6min
My subconscious doesn't like LLMs
2025 Jul 16 | 13min
Why interpreted languages make superior scripting languages
2023 Jan 03 | 1min
Own your email's domain
2023 Feb 12 | 6min
Computers understanding humans makes codebases irrelevant
2023 Apr 08 | 8min
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