I’m seeking a senior data platform role where I can design and scale complex batch and streaming pipelines, lead architecture decisions, and mentor engineers. I value a collaborative, innovative environment that leverages AWS and distributed systems, offers clear impact on product data, and supports continuous technical growth.
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Victor Bussone
@victorbussone
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit building data and AI platforms, including streaming pipelines processing 150M+ events daily.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
At Reddit, I architect data infrastructure for Shopping Discovery and Dynamic Product Ads, and advanced platform architecture for Reddit Answers and AI Search. I also engineered resilient Kafka and Flink pipelines processing 150M+ events daily.
I modernized BigQuery and Apache Iceberg infrastructure, reducing annual costs by $350K, and standardized Airflow workflows to improve reliability and developer self-service. Before Reddit, I worked on data streaming and feature pipelines at Zillow, and product search and recommendations data at Amazon.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Current
Architected data infrastructure for Reddit Shopping Discovery and Dynamic Product Ads using Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, Iceberg, and GCS. Advanced platform architecture for Reddit Answers and AI Search, and standardized Airflow orchestration.
ZI
Engineered ingestion services for Zillow's Data Streaming Platform using Kafka, Python, SQL, and AWS Kinesis. Built feature engineering pipelines for Related Homes and Zestimate with Databricks, PySpark, and Airflow.
Developed behavioral data pipelines for Amazon Product Search using Python, SQL, S3, and Redshift. Built customer item interaction datasets for Amazon Recommendations and optimized warehouse workloads.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Washington
Bachelor of Science, Informatics
2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Science in Informatics from the University of Washington, completed in 2013.
Availability
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Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
Salary expectations
120k-140k USD
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Skills
Data Platform EngineeringDistributed SystemsReal time Data ProcessingData StreamingData ModelingETL ELTData GovernanceData QualityData CatalogsData LineageSearch InfrastructureAI InfrastructureMachine Learning InfrastructureEvent Driven ArchitectureLakehouse ArchitecturePythonSQLAWSData AnalysisAICI CDStakeholder ManagementCustomer ServiceAzureProject Management
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