Branko Fulurija
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Engineer and Developer
Branko is a data engineer who specializes in building big data platforms in the cloud. In addition to extensive experience in cloud architecture, data analytics, serverless solutions, and cost optimization, Branko has five AWS and two GCP certifications and is an award-winning competitive programmer and hackathon winner.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apache Airflow, Docker, Git, Terminal, Serverless, Agile, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), JetBrains
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is a petabyte-scale big data analytics platform.
Work Experience
Software Engineering Intern
Microsoft
- Built a Microsoft Office add-in to help students practice math skills.
- Combined and integrated services from multiple Microsoft Office products.
- Assisted in shipping a feature to production that has thousands of users worldwide.
- Implemented the front end and back end using C++, C#, TypeScript, and React.
Programming Tutor
Educational Center Belgrade
- Prepared high school students for national programming competitions.
- Taught advanced computer science topics, such as dynamic programming, graph theory, and data structures.
- Assisted students in winning medals during international olympiads in programming.
Software Engineering Intern
Microsoft
- Created an internal big data tool that provides insights about system health and performance.
- Enabled users to discover performance bottlenecks, quickly recover from failures, and understand the system state through visualizations by using this tool.
- Used a tech stack that included C# and proprietary big data engines.
Experience
Coding Interview Jumpstart Online Course Creator for Udemy
MTS Assistant | Hackathon Winner
US Accidents | Udacity Nanodegree Project
https://github.com/brfulu/us-accidents-data-engineeringRedshift Data Modeling | Udacity Nanodegree Project
https://github.com/brfulu/redshift-data-modelingData Lake ETL with Spark | Udacity Nanodegree
https://github.com/brfulu/datalake-spark-etlThe requirements included building an ETL pipeline that extracted user data from AWS S3, processing it using Spark, and loading the data back into AWS S3 as a set of dimensional tables. This would allow the analytics team to continue finding insights into what songs their users were listening to.
Airflow Data Pipeline | Udacity Nanodegree Project
https://github.com/brfulu/airflow-data-pipelineSkills
Languages
Python, Java, SQL, C++, JavaScript, C#, TypeScript
Frameworks
Hadoop, Presto, Spark
Tools
Apache Airflow, Google Cloud Dataproc, IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, Terraform, Ansible, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), BigQuery, AWS Glue, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon Athena, AWS Step Functions, Git, Terminal, JetBrains, TeamCity, Grafana, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Composer, Apache Beam, Cloud Dataflow, Tableau, Looker, Jenkins, Amazon CloudWatch, Kibana, Amazon QuickSight
Paradigms
ETL, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Testing, Microservices, Business Intelligence (BI), DevOps, Agile, Data Science
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS Lambda, Apache Kafka, Amazon EC2, Jupyter Notebook, Docker, Kubernetes
Storage
Data Pipelines, Databases, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Data Lakes, Google Cloud Storage, Apache Hive, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud SQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Amazon Aurora, Google Bigtable, JSON
Other
Data Warehousing, Software Engineering, Algorithms, Data Structures, Cloud Computing, Serverless, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Data Processing, Data Modeling, Dataproc, Big Data, Competitive Programming, ELT, Graphs, Networking, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Google BigQuery, EMR, Amazon RDS, Streaming, Internet of Things (IoT), GraphDB, Amazon Neptune, Google Data Studio, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps, Monitoring, Prometheus, Amazon API Gateway, Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Big Data Architecture, Data Quality, API Gateways, Computer Science, Amazon Kinesis, Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems
Libraries/APIs
PySpark, React
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Faculty of Computing - Belgrade, Serbia
Certifications
GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
GCP
GCP Professional Data Engineer
GCP
Data Engineering Nanodegree
Udacity
AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty
AWS
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS
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