Niraj Zade
Data Engineer
I work at the intersection of computing and data.
Typically help companies/people with data ingestion, processing, and storage on the cloud.
To unlock downstream data science and business intelligence.
At any scale.
Have spent a decade working on computers, and 2.5 years of it working at tech companies.
Past work includes
Contact
Email - niraj [at] theniraj [dot] com
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/nirajzade/
Computers understanding humans makes codebases irrelevant
A consequence of good code generation models
2023 Apr 08
8 min
blog (4)
gen-ai (1)
Own your email's domain
Protect identity loss by owning the email's domain
2023 Feb 12
6 min
blog (4)
Why python needs virtual environments
An opinion on the python package and env management shitshow
2023 Feb 04
10 min
package-management (1)
python (2)
blog (4)
Why interpreted languages make superior scripting languages
Why {python, bash, ruby, ...} are preferred for scripting over {go, c, ...}
2023 Jan 03
1 min
blog (4)
Resources
These are constantly evolving notes.
conventions (1) distributed-systems (1) git (1) python (2) sql (1)
UUID - versions, details, use cases
There are 8 versions of uuid, each with its own specification. You must know how a version works, to know the use cases where it can be used.
2024 Sep 13
15 min
distributed-systems (1)
Git based development - Standards and Etiquette
Standards and guidelines on writing commit messages, creating branches, creating pull requests.
2024 Aug 28
9 min
git (1)
conventions (1)
Python unicode string comparison and normalization schemes
Universally applicable string comparison in python. For string comparisons, and for de-duplication in datasets.
2024 May 06
8 min
python (2)
SQL logical clause execution order
Like operator precedence, but for SQL clauses.
2023 Nov 15
2 min
sql (1)
Tools