Niraj Zade
Senior Data Engineer | Software Engineer
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 AI, Data Science & Data Driven Business Decisions.
All this without breaking the bank.
I have a borderline addiction for computing, that has been directed into building businesses. 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 computers at the night.
Haven't found any other line of work that's so (frustratingly) loveable. I'm glad that the world has a path to turn software engineering into a career.
(Most of these are ever evolving pieces)
Spark Microbook
2025 Oct 16 | 32min
Spark performance optimization compendium
2025 Oct 11 | 6min
Spark join strategies
2024 Jan 22 | 16min
Unicode string normalization schemes in Python
2024 May 06 | 8min
Python gotchas compilation
2023 Sep 17 | 7min
Lecture - You and your research by Dr. Richard Hamming
2024 Oct 14 | 1hr 36min
Why charge more as an engineer
2025 Oct 13 | 8min
Catalyzing research within India
2025 Aug 25 | 1min
Links collection
2025 Jun 15 | 3min
Papers, books, talks etc
2025 Jun 02 | 4min
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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