# Rinat Ibrayev

> Big Data Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rinatibrayev

Big Data Engineer with 14 years of experience in software development and Ph.D. in Computer Science. Passionate about building scalable data infrastructures and data pipelines. Experienced in processing large scale batch and streaming data in production environments.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Apixio
Jan 2018 – Present | San Mateo, CA

### Sr. Software Data Engineer @ Castlight Health
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA

### Senior Software Engineer @ Calix
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, CA
●  Led Big Data development and Big Data technology research.
●  Developed Hadoop MapReduce jobs in Java to process large network data.
●  Developed large data processing jobs with Apache Spark.
●  Developed end-to-end ETL pipeline to transform raw input data into reporting engines.
●  Benchmarked Hadoop MapReduce, Spark, Hive, Pig, Impala on large data sets.

### Systems Engineer III @ Ericsson
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Jose, CA
●  Coordinated multi-site cross-functional product delivery.
●  Defined system requirements for network products.

### Software Engineer II @ Ericsson
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 | Boulder, CO
●  Designed and developed network OAM software in C.
●  Designed and developed telecom equipment testing solution in Java and C++.

### Research Assistant @ Iowa State University
Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 | Ames, IA
●  Researched model-based object recognition from sensed data.
●  Developed mathematical and numerical optimization algorithms to match data against models.


## Education
### PhD in Computer Science
Iowa State University

### MS in Computer Science
Iowa State University

### BS in Computer Science & Mathematics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ribrayev

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Last updated: 2026-04-12