Location: Asia<p>Remote: Yes<p>Willing to relocate: No<p>Technologies: Scala &#x2F; Java &#x2F; C++ &#x2F; Python &#x2F; Hadoop &#x2F; HBase &#x2F; Kafka<p>Email: pingdevnull@gmail.com<p>I&#x27;m primarily a backend engineer who loves working on hard problems at scale.<p>* Proficient in writing performance critical systems in Java&#x2F;Scala&#x2F;C++<p>* Worked extensively on Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark, HBase and Kafka<p>* In-depth knowledge on the AWS eco-system<p>* Good understanding of OLAP &#x2F; data processing &#x2F; analytics domains<p>* I have worked with search systems like SOLR and ElasticSearch and I&#x27;ve scaled them to hundreds of millions of records<p>* Working knowlege of the machine learning space (I&#x27;ve built classifiers, trained models for predictions, etc.)<p>* Hands-on with Ansible and managing Linux servers<p>* Outcome focussed - I prefer picking the right technology for the right job<p>The most challenging system I have written till date is a distributed store in C++ for answering analytics and search queries with low latencies.<p>I&#x27;m also passionate about start-ups, hiring and user experience. I have built and launched a number of side-projects that have thousands of passionate users from all around the world.<p>I&#x27;m a long-time HN user, posting from a throwaway username. Please email me for more details at: pingdevnull@gmail.com