Software Engineer · Data & Infrastructure PlatformsBaltimore, MD

Building platforms.
Making them scale.

I’m Vugar Abdulaliyev. I build and run production data and infrastructure platforms — Kubernetes, distributed processing, and the systems that keep them reliable.

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Available for full-time roles, contracts, and platform consulting.

Production platforms, end to end.

2024 – 2026Baku

Software Engineer, Data PlatformsSOCAR

  • Owned the company’s Kubernetes big-data platform end to end: ingestion, Spark/Kafka processing, storage, orchestration, and serving.
  • Shipped batch and streaming pipelines that move plant operational data into the enterprise platform.
  • Stood up GPU compute for LLM workloads; ran Ceph storage and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring in production.
  • Automated provisioning and GitOps delivery with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and ArgoCD.
2025Remote

Software Engineer, Data PlatformsGR8 Tech

  • Built AWS pipelines on S3, Lambda, and Athena for analytics workloads.
  • Wrote Spark jobs and dbt models that produced reliable, analytics-ready datasets.
2023 – 2024Baku

Software Engineer, Data PlatformsAzercell Telecom

  • Built a self-service streaming ETL system: config-defined jobs, Streamlit UI, Go control plane deploying Flink on Kubernetes.
  • Operated Cloudera-era Spark, HDFS, Hive, Impala, and Cassandra for subscriber analytics.
  • Added containerized NVIDIA GPU support and Jupyter Kernel Gateway to the internal ML platform.
2022 – 2023Baku

Software Engineer, Data AnalyticsKapital Bank

  • Delivered analytics and ML workflows with Oracle SQL, Python, Tableau, and Dataiku.

Tools I ship with in production.

Languages
Go · Python · SQL · C++ · Scala · Java
Data systems
Spark · Kafka · Flink · Airflow · dbt · Hadoop
Platform
Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · Helm · ArgoCD · AWS
Reliability
Prometheus · Grafana · Ceph · PostgreSQL · CI/CD

Background & training.

  • Johns Hopkins UniversityM.S.E. Computer ScienceBaltimore, MD · 2026 – Present
  • Baku Higher Oil SchoolB.Sc. Information Security Engineering, Distinction, GPA 3.95Baku, Azerbaijan · 2020 – 2025

Selected wins.

  • Junction 20241st Place

    Won the local round and a golden ticket to the finals, solving a challenge set by Fingrid, Finland’s national energy data hub.

  • InfoTech Research Competition1st Place

    Winning research proposal on a Modern Data Platform architecture — microservices-based, observable, and resilient for large-scale distributed systems.

  • ABB AI Startup Challenge2nd Place

    AI Agent Governance Framework with real-time content monitoring and data lineage controls to prevent proprietary data leakage in production.

  • StartUp School by University of Nevada1st Place

    Won a sponsored trip to the USA for business and technical education.

  • Huawei Transit Hackathon1st Place

    Built an application suggesting alternative routes to solve last-mile transportation problems.

  • JunctionX Baku1st Place

    Won the first Junction hackathon in Azerbaijan with a vehicle-maintenance notification app built on an OBD2 port reader.

  • Azercell Code for Future1st Place

    End-to-end solution with business model, backend, and TensorFlow deep learning model optimizing cashback expenses on blockchain.

  • Pasha Life Hackathon3rd Place

    Built a digital consultation assistant for life insurance.

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