Updab - Software and data engineering consulting

Data engineering consulting

About Updab

Updab AB is incorporated in Sweden by William Saar (MSc) and offers backend and data engineering consulting services globally on a remote basis. Services include planning, research, data exploration, design, migration and implementation of data pipelines.

William has hands-on experience with data technologies Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, Apache Beam, Google Dataflow, BigQuery, as well as older Hadoop-based frameworks. Programming languages include Java, Rust, Scala, TypeScript, Python, and SQL.

William's more than 15 years of professional software development experience includes

Backend and data engineering for Spotify and Candy Crush
Data engineering and Rust development for application security leader Rapid7
Trading technology development for a Nasdaq-acquired marketplace platform powering exchanges such as Stock Exchange of Thailand and London Metal Exchange
Development for the Java performance-tuning suite that became Java Mission Control and shipped with Oracle's Java Development Kit
Helping a San Francisco-based startup go from seed stage, through Series-A to an acquisition
Patents in data analysis and software security

Writings and Talks

Slides from talk about Migrating batch-ETLs to Streaming Flink
https://www.slideshare.net/WilliamSaar/migrating-batch-etls-to-streaming-flink

ITNEXT article: Serverless Twitter bot with Google Cloud
https://itnext.io/serverless-twitter-bot-with-google-cloud-35d370676f7

tCell/Rapid7 blog article: Trusting Agents with Rust
https://blog.rapid7.com/2017/06/01/trusting-agents-with-rust/

Personal software development blog
https://saarw.github.io

Open source project Flushout - a distributed data model based on event sourcing written in TypeScript
https://github.com/saarw/flushout