About

Abrar Sheikh is a highly experienced Staff Software Engineer currently working at Uber, where he is focused on machine learning for Marketplace Investments and Incentives. With almost 9 years of relevant experience, Abrar has a proven track record of building and maintaining performant, scalable data pipelines on various platforms, including Apache Kafka, MySQL, and Cassandra. Abrar's passion lies in data infrastructure engineering and solving business problems using real-time event-based streaming systems. In his previous role as a Software Engineer at Yelp, he was responsible for building and maintaining the data ingestion platform from MySQL and Cassandra for Yelp's data streaming infrastructure. He was also the primary developer and maintainer of MySQLStreamer, an application for streaming data from MySQL in the data pipeline. Abrar assisted Yelp Engineering in writing efficient stream processing applications in Python and built and maintained various data sinks for streaming data from the data pipeline into Amazon Redshift, Salesforce, Elastic Search, and other platforms. Abrar's expertise extends beyond data infrastructure engineering to include visual accessibility for software developers with low vision. He is an advocate of this cause and has worked to make software more accessible for developers with low vision. Abrar holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from New York University and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. His technical skills include Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, infra, MySQL, ML, Cassandra, Python, Elastic Search, Kafka, Salesforce, Search, and Mobile.