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.


Tech I most frequently work with: Spark, FastAPI, Python, SQL, Azure (and also AWS), Airflow, Docker

CONTACT

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.


Articles

I learn through writing. Most of these are ever evolving pieces.


sqlserver

SqlServer reference - All date & time formatters
2025 Jul 10 | 2m (519 words)


spark

Spark Microbook
2025 Oct 16 | 26m (4,801 words)

Delta Lake - performance optimization and maintenance
2026 Jan 03 | 12m (2,262 words)

Spark performance optimization compendium
2025 Oct 11 | 4m (887 words)

Spark join strategies
2024 Jan 22 | 13m (2,450 words)


python

Unicode string normalization schemes in Python
2024 May 06 | 7m (1,303 words)

Python gotchas compilation
2023 Sep 17 | 5m (1,058 words)


linux

SSH notes
2024 Sep 22 | 2m (417 words)


career

Lecture - You and your research by Dr. Richard Hamming
2024 Oct 14 | 1hr18m (14,441 words)

Why charge more as an engineer
2025 Oct 13 | 6m (1,253 words)


personal computing

Keyboard shortcuts
2024 May 06 | 0m (137 words)


resources

Catalyzing research within India
2025 Aug 25 | 1m (239 words)

Links collection
2025 Jun 15 | 3m (586 words)

Papers, books, talks etc
2025 Jun 02 | 3m (715 words)


webtech

JWT - a quick overview of its working and encryption algorithms
2024 Apr 02 | 12m (2,321 words)

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