Hi Mandar! Thank you for the introduction and your interest to work on Apache Beam documentation with Season of Docs! We can't wait to see your application come through to work on 'Deployment of a Flink and Spark Clusters with Portable Beam' documentation.
If you have any questions, feel free to reply on this thread, or you can reach out to the registered mentors via Slack channel [1]. If you have trouble joining the slack channel, you can request an invite here[2]. [1] https://join.slack.com/share/zt-eaml657m-KMamnNZfRF2BB7eQpmvveg [2] https://s.apache.org/slack-invite On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:14 PM MANDAR DESHPANDE <mand...@g.ucla.edu> wrote: > Dear Pablo and Aizhamal, > > I am a graduate student at UCLA currently pursuing my Masters in ECE with > a focus on computer vision and machine learning. I have been an avid > open-source contributor to organisations like Scilab, Gensim and TensorFlow. > > In 2017, as a part of Google Summer of Code I created a Machine Learning > toolbox for Scilab by a Jupyter kernel integration in their CLI> The > project got successful and I was invited to Mentor its development in 2018. > We further integrated it with AWS and GCP to create a remote ML learning > toolbox. Working on similarity learning research at Gensim as a Mentor for > GSoC also helped me bolster my understanding of open-source mentoring and > development. > I worked as a ML Engineer at Citibank from 2017-2019 where we extensively > used python libraries like numpy, pandas and TensorFlow. While continuing > my full time employment, I worked as a GSoC Mentor for TensorFlow in 2019 > and will be mentoring projects for library migration to TF2.0 in 2020 > summer as well. > > I understand how important documentation is for open source projects, > especially projects like Apache Beam with its massive scale or usage and > support across various industries now. I am a fluent English speaker and > have published multiple blogs with illustrations explaining the data > science pipelines. You can read more about my technical writing here - > https://medium.com/@razzormandar and https://mandroid6.github.io/archive/. > > I am specifically interested in Deployment of a Flink and Spark Clusters > with Portable Beam project, as I have hands-on experience of working with > GCP and AWS.. Being a developer and technical writer myself, I see this as > an huge opportunity for me to grow in the role and contribute to the > exciting work Apache Beam is doing in pipeline execution. > > I have attached my resume for your reference. > > Excited to discuss further with you! > > Regards, > Mandar Deshpande > >
