Software Engineer

Behzad Pirvali

Experienced Software Developer

********@*****.*** Los Angeles, CA

SUMMARY

Innovative experienced software engineer with extensive expertise in big data, high-volume real-time data streaming (using Databricks Spark & Flink), cloud computing, and distributed systems. Passionate about creating high performance scalable real-time solutions, while ensuring compliance and governance adherence. A strong track record of leading high-impact projects for top tech companies. Recognized for technical leadership and SQL optimizations (US patent holder).

EXPERIENCE

Principal Software Engineer

Viant Technology

2024 - Present Los Angeles, CA

Regular meetings with Google's Big-Query team on Big-Query query optimizations and Legacy SQL to Standard SQL migration challenges. Working on Chat With Data project, a OpenAI project to enable users to get insight into their data through a chat interface. Developing several GCP Cloud Functions in Golang for automated regression testing of “Chat With Data” project

Code Reviews and SQL optimizations within VIANT.

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Warner Bros. Discovery

2021 - 2024 Los Angeles, CA

Reporting to the VP of data engineering, I was a key player in the design of HBO MAX data streaming pipelines using Databricks and Snowflake. Design & code reviews, job interviews up to director level. One of the main technical contact between HBO MAX and Databricks. Created a high-volume (70 TB/day) NRT solution using Python, AWS, Kafka, and Databricks/PySpark.

Performed a successful benchmark between Databricks and Snowflake resulting in an additional 32% Snowflake discount. Director of Data Platform

FOX

2020 - 2021 Los Angeles, CA

Mentored the Dev and QA team.

Published architecture guidelines for building scalable and efficient ETL and query solutions.

Migrated a big-data real-time streaming pipeline from AWS KDA-SQL to AWS KDA-Flink using Scala.

Sr. Architect (hands-on)

Ticketmaster

2019 - 2020 Hollywood, CA

Developed a real-time streaming pipeline using FLINK-SQL, KSQLDB, and MemSQL.

Extended the open source code for Confluent’s Kafka JDBC-Connect to meet the needs of Ticketmaster.

Technical lead for the rollout of Databricks inside the Ticketmaster. Principal Software Engineer

NFL

2016 - 2019 Los Angeles, CA

Managed a team of C++ developers, designing a C++ cross platform app for several CTV devices using You.i TV library.

Developed ETL pipelines using Java/Scala, Spark, Apache Storm, Cassandra, Kafka, Apache Camel, and Spring Boot.

Developed a real-time Data visualization dashboard using Bootstrap 3, jQuery, and D3.

STRENGTHS

Innovative

I consistently think outside the box,

delivering innovative solutions to complex

technical challenges. Awarded a U.S. patent

(US 201******** A1) for SQL optimization.

Problem-Solving

Ability to break down complex problems,

think analytically, and come up with efficient

solutions.

Teamwork

Naturally helpful and team-oriented, always

ready to support colleagues, share

knowledge, and foster a positive work

environment

Adaptability & Continuous Learning

Staying up-to-date with emerging

technologies, adapting to new processes to

improve productivity.

SKILLS

RDBMS (15+ Y) Airflow Kubernetes

Erwin Snowflake (6+ Y)

Spark - Databricks (6+ Y) Big-Query

DataStax Cassandra

Kafka - Confluent (9+ Y) Flink

MongoDB GraphQL AWS (7+ Y)

GCP Azure Testing - CI/CD (10+ Y)

Hadoop / HIVE DataDog RabbitMQ

MemSQL Apache SOLR Node.js

React

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EXPERIENCE

Performance Architect

MaxCDN

2015 - 2016 Studio City, CA

Developed a Big-Data RT streaming solution using Java, Golang, VOLTDB, Mongo-DB, and Rabbit-MQ (1 PB of data per month)

Developed a high-performance wild-card purge module for NGINX edge- servers in C.

Principal Data Engineer

Maker Studios

2014 - 2015 Los Angeles, CA

Developed a high-Performance Asynchronous HTTP library for async REST calls using Java NIO2.

Using the above library, developed REST clients to call into YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Vine to capture information related to YouTube channels, videos, social profiles.

Developed a high-performance flexible web-scraping tool. Staff Software Engineer (Team lead)

Intuit

2011 - 2014 Los Angeles, CA

Created a real-time streaming data pipeline using Apache Storm. Created an Oracle/OLAP data aggregation solution with 300 different aggregates.

Converted the above solution to Hadoop/HIVE

Director of Data/Performance Architect

FOX Audience Network

Los Angeles, CA

Principal Software Engineer

Symantec Corporation

Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

M.S. & B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Robotics

Technical University of Graz - Austria

Graz, Austria

LANGUAGES

Python

Proficient

SQL

Proficient

Java

Proficient

C/C++

Proficient

JavaScript

Proficient

Scala

Advanced

Go

Advanced

Dart (Flutter)

Proficient

React-Native

Intermediate

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Operational Cost Reduction

By implementing efficient system design,

code & SQL optimizations, I have minimized

hardware requirements, resulting in

substantial operational cost savings for

multiple companies.

At Warner Bros. Discovery, I conducted a

performance benchmark between

Databricks & Snowflake, leading to a 32%

cost reduction for Snowflake to maintain

operational competitiveness.

Creating low latency high volume data

streaming pipelines.

In MaxCDN, I have created a low latency,

high volume RT data aggregation pipeline.

Latency end-to-end was under 3 seconds

for a data volume of 40 TB of data per day.

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