NIRAJ ZADE
Data Engineer | Software Engineer

Sometimes you need someone with range, to tackle open ended problems with unknown path to solution. If you're in that sometime, I am that someone.

Have spent the past decade working through software, with ~3 years of it within tech companies. Have built for enterprises, startups, as well as myself (indie development).

Tech I most frequently work with: Spark, FastAPI, Python, SQL, AWS, Airflow, Docker

Strengths include:

  • Overall range, required to sew together business and tech
  • Rapid explotatory prototyping and simulation, to prove and finalize architectural decisions
  • Sharp and effective communication (spent a LOT of time polishing this over the years)
  • Building technical consensus amongst stakeholders in the face of ambiguity
  • Coming up with roadmap/goals for targetted execution. A term you might know is "manager of one"

CONTACT ========

Email: niraj[at]theniraj[dot]com
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/nirajzade/

More info on the hire page.

Articles

unclassified

  • [2024 Oct 14] Lecture - You and your research by Dr. Richard Hamming

    • sqlserver

  • [2025 Jul 10] SqlServer - All date & time formatters

    • spark

  • [2024 Jan 22] Performance Optimization - Spark join strategies
  • [2024 Feb 20] Performance Optimization - Spark AQE - all the details you need to know
  • [2024 Mar 13] Infra - Ram per core analysis of AWS EC2 instances

    • python

  • [2024 May 06] Unicode string normalization schemes in Python
  • [2024 Oct 14] Recommended python packages

    • linux

  • [2024 Sep 22] Linux - SSH tunneling templates

    • postgres

  • [2024 Oct 13] Postgres - index types and usage scenarios

    • resources

  • [2025 Aug 25] Catalyzing research within India
  • [2025 Jun 15] Links collection
  • [2025 Jun 02] Papers, books, talks etc

    • blog

  • [2025 Jul 16] My subconscious doesn't like LLMs
  • [2023 Jan 03] Why interpreted languages make superior scripting languages
  • [2023 Feb 12] Own your email's domain
  • [2023 Apr 08] Computers understanding humans makes codebases irrelevant

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