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Vida Gharavian

@vidagharavian

I build scalable data pipelines, cloud automation, and AI-powered anomaly detection systems.

I'm building and maintaining large-scale AWS EMR and Hadoop data workflows at Bandsintown, including Oozie-to-Airflow migrations, HDFS pipelines, Spark job orchestration, and reliable ETL for music event data.

Previously, I developed AWS and Azure automation at LogixITS and researched LLM-powered log anomaly detection at Ontario Tech University. My work spans Python, Java, MLOps, cloud platforms, big data systems, and published research in GNN-based intrusion detection and optimization.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Big Data Engineer

Current

Bandsintown

Aug 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Developed and maintained large-scale data workflows using Oozie and Apache Airflow for AWS EMR and Hadoop ecosystems. Designed and optimized HDFS-based pipelines and migrated legacy Oozie workflows to Airflow DAGs.

Oozie Airflow Amazon EMR Hadoop HDFS Spark ETL Data Pipelines

Software Engineer

LogixITS

May 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 3 months)

Designed automation solutions using AWS Lambda and Azure Functions to optimize big data query performance. Developed event-driven services with asynchronous communication via Azure EventHub for Parking Management Systems.

AWS Lambda Azure Functions Azure Event Hubs SQLAlchemy SDLC Big Data

Research Assistant – NLP and GenAI Focus

Ontario Tech University

May 2022 - Apr 2024 (1 year 11 months)

Developed an LLM-powered log anomaly detection system using GPT-3 and embedding models. Built log understanding pipelines and designed predictive models for financial data and intrusion detection.

NLP GenAI GPT 3 Text Embedding Ada 002 LSTM GNN Python Research

Junior Data Scientist

Neshan

Jun 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Developed Java Spring Boot microservices with RESTful APIs and applied MLOps best practices for AI model deployment. Enhanced test automation using Python-based frameworks and CI/CD with Docker Compose and RabbitMQ.

Java Spring Boot REST APIs Spring Data JPA Hibernate MLOps Docker Kubernetes Python CI CD Docker Compose RabbitMQ

Full Stack Developer

Ferdowsi Cloud

Feb 2021 - Apr 2021 (2 months)

Developed microservices for providing instances in a Django-based web service with OpenStack's cloud infrastructure. Designed a RESTful web service for installing applications using Ansible on instances.

Django OpenStack REST APIs Ansible Microservices Python

Django Developer

AIT

Nov 2018 - Jul 2019 (8 months)

Worked as a back-end developer using Django on three launch projects for a knowledge-based company focused on AI-based systems and hardware gadgets.

Django Python Backend Development

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Ontario Tech University

Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2023 - 2024

Grade: 4.1/4.3

Pursued a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on AI-driven optimization and log anomaly detection. Thesis: A Pairwise Surrogate Model using GNN models for Evolutionary Optimization.