HamzaGabajiwala

Software Development Engineer at Yahoo

Building large-scale data pipelines and audience targeting systems at Yahoo. Working with Spark, Airflow, and Flink on AWS to process audience segments for programmatic advertising at scale. Recently integrating GenAI/LLM capabilities into search retargeting pipelines.

01Skills

Data Engineering

Apache SparkPySparkApache AirflowApache FlinkOpenSearchAvro/ORC

Cloud & DevOps

AWS EMRAWS S3AWS GlueAWS LambdaEC2DockerKubernetesJenkinsCI/CD

Languages

PythonScalaJavaC++JavaScriptTypeScript

Databases & Web

MySQLPostgreSQLMongoDBReactFlaskDjangoSpring Boot

02Experience

February 2024 — Present

Yahoo

Software Development Engineer I · Dublin, Ireland

  • Built 0+ Airflow DAGs processing 0.00B+ daily events across 0+ audience segments on AWS EMR.
  • Built real-time multi-level ad targeting in Flink — evaluating campaigns at package and order granularity by extending the Java segment cache.
  • Shipped Yahoo Standard Audiences to production — built the OpenSearch rules pipeline improving 0+ audience definitions, expanding reach by 0%.
  • Migrated 4 scoring systems to new infrastructure, cutting costs 0% and upgrading to EMR v7.
  • Designed a reprocessing system to recover audience segments dropped by the hourly pipeline, covering 0K+ segments with health-check alerting.
  • Shipped geo-aware audience segmentation with country-level targeting. Authored system design for impression-based scoring processing 0GB+ daily.

June 2021 — June 2022

TIAA GBS

Software Developer · Mumbai, India

  • Migrated 0+ test cases from Selenium to WebDriver in 0 days — manual regression to automated nightly runs.
  • Cut data-collection downtime by 0% with REST API ingestion, enabling same-day reporting.

03Projects

04Publications

Comparative Analysis between InceptionResnetV2 and InceptionV3 for Attention Based Image Captioning

IEEE, 2021

Comprehensive Review of Various Optimization Algorithms for Image Captioning

IEEE, 2021

05Education

2022 — 2023

Trinity College Dublin

M.Sc. Computer Science — AR/VR · 1:1

2018 — 2022

NMIMS University

B.Tech Computer Engineering · GPA: 3.45/4