Hello Aljoscha Krettek and Seth Wiesman, I am Abdul Basit, An enthusiast Data Science and Engineering professional. I am currently doing my Industrial PhD focussing on developing predictive maintenance solutions with the help of Big Data, Cloud and AI tools. My PhD is in collaboration with Eit Digital, City University of London and Bosch group.
I have previously done two masters in Data Engineering, Machine learning and have 3 years of industrial experience in these areas. My aim and interest is to bridge the gap between researchers and industry by helping researchers to adapt to the modern tools in the domain of Data and AI. For example, introducing them to tools for building data preparation pipelines with Apache Airflow,Apache Spark, Kafka and others. I have contributed <https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/6007> to Apache Airflow by implementing a AWS Glue plugin for developing better data and ML pipelines. While working on Data Engineering tasks as part of my projects, I became interested in Apache flink and after about it use-cases, I really started to appreciate it and tried to do some hands-on by replacing Spark Streaming with Flink. Having worked on a few Big data processing frameworks, I believe that flink has a lot of potential that has yet to be appreciated by the big data community. Documentation and guides available with the official project plays a very crucial role in increasing the adaptability of the project. So, I started to search for the option to contribute to this awesome project and fortunately found the documentation Improvement proposal "FLIP-60: Restructure the Table API & SQL documentation" and "Flip 12369 Extend the Table API & SQL Documentation" , which is part of google season of code. I will be very happy to contribute towards any of these two tasks of restructuring and extending Table APi and SQL Documentation. I have read the detailed descriptions of these projects and they align perfectly with my experience. My previous exposure to Apache spark and Kafka will help me to adopt more efficiently to the task. I will look forward to your opinion on my profile before the official application to google season of Docs. I have attached my CV for the reference. -- Thanks Regards, Abdul Basit
