Updab - Data engineering and software architecture

Data engineering and software architecture consulting

Updab AB is a product development and consulting firm with consulting specialized in streaming data pipelines with Apache Flink, Kafka and related data infrastructure technologies, using Java, Rust, and Scala.

Updab is run by William Saar (MSc) who has more than 15 years of professional software development experience that include

developing web backends and streaming analytics solutions for the world's largest mobile games
developing trading technology for equity and commodity exchanges
helping build the Java performance-tuning suite that became Java Mission Control and shipped with Oracle's Java Development Kit
patents in data analysis and software security

Updab is based in Stockholm, Sweden, but has experience working with remote clients through a recent engagement to help a San Francisco-based application security startup with technology evaluation, design and implementation.

Updab product portfolio

Products developed, released, and maintained by Updab AB from 2019

ThinkCool - Make better decisions
Product Hunt-featured mobile app built with React Native and available in the iOS App Store and Google Play store
https://thinkcool.app/

ImpactMiner - Strategy collaboration
Web app for real-time strategy collaboration built, with React and NestJS in TypeScript
https://impactminer.com/

PlotDash - Plan your story
Web app for screenwriters to plan stories, built with React and NestJS in TypeScript
https://plotdash.com/

Writings and Talks

Building 3 products with backends, frontends and mobile apps in TypeScript
https://saarw.github.io/dev/2019/12/22/building-3-products-with-backends-frontends-mobile-apps-in-typescript.html

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

Is TypeScript the only language your company needs?
https://saarw.github.io/dev/2019/05/03/is-typescript-the-only-language-your-company-needs.html

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

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

Open Source

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