# Victor Barua  🔎

> Query Languages @ Datadog

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/victorbarua

Polyglot software developer living in Seattle. Interests include distributed systems, databases and programming languages. Known to spend unusual amounts of time thinking about ASTs and query engines.

Organizer of #PapersWeLoveYVR

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
Building out query engine and query planning capabilities.

### Software Engineer II @ Datadog
Jan 2022 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Building a query language and query engine.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Treasure Data
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Developed control plane services in Ruby w/ Ruby on Rails and Kotlin w/ Dropwizard, which managed configuration entities for data transformations and flows within our Customer Data Platform (CDP).
- Load tested services with Locust, checking for both system performance and data model consistency issues.
- Designed and specified new (and sometimes existing) APIs using OpenAPI.
- Architected and implemented an extension of our internal permissions system with new capabilities to provide customers with more fine-grained control over their configurations.
    * Added a new RBAC domain layer and interpreter to our existing Ruby on Rails application with sufficient expressiveness to encode our existing model and the extensions required.
    * Coordinated feature release across Frontend, QA, UX and Product stakeholders.
    * Worked closely with a Junior Software Developer, providing mentorship and support.
- Ran an internal paper reading group to introduce new (and sometimes old) technologies, techniques and best practices to our teams.

### Software Engineer @ Treasure Data
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Vancouver, Canada Area
- Wrote tooling to analyze how customers utilized our internal query DSL in order to understand usage patterns, identify performance issues and guide product decisions.
- Handled incidents as part of a regular on-call rotation and ran incident retrospectives.
    * Improved our operations by updating runbooks, tweaking dashboards, introducing additional monitoring and actively mentoring other developers during incidents.
- Helped grow our Vancouver team from 3 to 10 developers
    * Interviewed potential candidates for our team.
    * Performed deep cleaning and updates of our onboarding material and service documentation, reducing onboarding times from months to weeks.
- Configured and deployed team services to AWS using Terraform.

### Software Engineer @ Bazinga Technologies
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Vancouver, Canada Area
- Became the sole Frontend developer in the team and onboarded myself onto our pre-existing React Typescript project in order to ship features for our users.
 - Implemented CI/CD pipelines for our frontend and backend codebases based on a Git feature branch workflow, enabling faster iteration and deployments.

### Backend Developer @ Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Vancouver, Canada Area
- Developed interconnect over RabbitMQ to integrate data from Bitlit Media into Rakuten Kobo.
- Containerized development dependencies to allow for development in both Linux and Windows environments.

### Backend Developer @ Shelfie by BitLit
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Vancouver, Canada Area
- Designed APIs for our iOS and Android applications using Apache Thrift RPC.
- Implemented backend features using the Play Framework, PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ.
- Implemented administrative UIs using Scala.js.
- Performed performance profiling of C++ code used for Computer Vision tasks and implemented optimizations.

### Software Development Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Bellevue, Washington
- Core developer of the MSN Weather Android application.
- Implemented various graphical views as well as associated backend logic.

### Software Development Engineering Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Seattle, WA
- Worked on the Kindle Whispercast team to develop customer facing features using Javascript, jQuery and the Spring Framework.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Quantum Degenerate Gases Laboratory
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | University of British Columbia
- Created device wrappers in Python to allow for new equipment, such as voltage sensors and cameras, to be incorporated into existing experimental framework.

### Quality Assurance Engineer @ Atimi Software
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Vancouver, Canada
- Tested applications on iOS and Android devices.
- Created custom data feeds and services using PHP for testing purposes.

### Teaching Assistant For CPSC 110 @ University of British Columbia
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
- Guided groups of ~20 students through weekly computer science labs.
- Balanced 1-on-1 time with students with the needs of the whole lab group.

### Jump Start Academic Coach @ University of British Columbia
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
- Coached new international students at UBC as part of a two week intensive orientation program.
- Trained in facilitation, listening and coaching skills to better empower students.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Combined Honours Physics and Computer Science
The University of British Columbia
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vbarua
- Website: https://vbarua.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/vbarua

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Last updated: 2026-03-22