Ziga Zupanec | Data Engineer

👋 Hi there, I’m Ziga. I’m a data engineer with more than 5 years of experience in the field.

 

 

Get insights, make better decisions

 
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About me

A data engineer with 5 years of experience in blockchain/crypto and SaaS industry. A characteristic professional who specializes in the whole data life cycle from extracting data to storing data in a data warehouse, making dashboards and interpreting results. A 2015 Master of Computer Science graduate of University of Ljubljana.

 

Functional Expertise

  • Cloud Architecture

  • API Design and Development

  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases

  • A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets

  • Advanced web scraping (captcha busting, bot detection avoidance)

  • Strong reverse engineering skills

Things I do

NiceHash d.o.o.

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NiceHash is a largest and leading crypto-mining marketplace with over 1.5M users worldwide.

2017 - Present

Data Engineer
I cover activities related to data engineering and data science providing business intelligence insights for

  • Cloud Architecture: Designed data warehouse for storing large sets of data (GCE, BigQuery, Google Storage).

  • API Design and Development: Built microservices and API endpoints (Docker, Node.js, Flask).

  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases: Structuring and visualizing the data, dashboards (MetaBase).

 

University Rehabilitation Institute - Soca

2013 - 2016

Software developer
Built system to help physicians annotate medical reports faster using Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique.

  • Stack: Django, postgres, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, snowball, word lemmatization, word stemming

 

Adnalytics

adnalytics.io

Intelligence tool for social marketers

2018 - Present

Architectural design and backend, Google Cloud, Docker, Airflow, Puppeteer, 200 monthly subscribers ($99 / month).

 

Glury

glury.com

Distributed video peer to peer content delivery network

Initial idea and implementation, working proof-of-concept, JavaScript, WebRTC, NodeJS, Redis, VueJS

 

YouTube-MPV

github.com/agiz/youtube-mpv

Chrome extension to play YouTube videos with external player

Idea and execution, JavaScript, chrome extension, python backend

 

Ebola

ebola.show (not operational anymore)

Interactive theatre video game

Mobile app (frontend, JavaScript, HTML) and python backend (long-polling), physical wireless infrastructure capable of serving 300 users simultaneously

 

Indoor positioning system

http://eprints.fri.uni-lj.si/3332/1/Zupanec.pdf

Developed an algorithm for indoor positioning, MATLAB, C, python, JavaScript

 

Reversi

Download Report in Slovene language >

Developed the fastest parallel algorithm at the time, C, CL

 

Visualization of MtGox transactions

https://agiz.github.io/bitcoin_mtgox/

Processing, JavaScript

 

Predicting a tennis match with network analysis

https://github.com/agiz/predicting-a-tennis- match-with-network-analysis/raw/master/article.pdf

Stanford CS224W Analysis of Networks, Network analysis, Breadth-first search (BFS), PageRank, python, snap

 

Shearch

https://github.com/shearch/shearch

Collaborative shell history

zsh, bash, python

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Other Relevant Skills

Languages

JavaScript/Node.js, python, R, SQL

Computer skills

Architectural design, software design

Awards

Dean’s List—Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Telekom TS Startup Winner

Other

Typing 100 WPM (on a good day •ᴗ•)

Contact

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