Jernej Vasic
Senior Big Data Engineer | Scala
Salary / Daily rate
Belfast, UK
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
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About me
Intro
Senior Big Data Engineer with 8+ years at top-tier companies including Disney, Sky, and Lloyds Banking Group. Expert in Scala, Apache Spark, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) with proven leadership experience. I deliver scalable data solutions and ML pipelines that drive business growth.
Work experience
Senior Software Engineer
Napier AI
Sep 2024 - Jul 2025
11 months
Belfast, UK
Skills: Scala · Microsoft Azure · Machine Learning · Python (Programming Language) · Elastic Stack (ELK)
Big Data Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
7 months
Bristol, UK
Skills: ORC · Data Engineering · Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) · Databases
Technical Lead
HM Revenue & Customs
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
7 months
Worthing, UK
Skills: Scala · MongoDB · Databases · Play Framework
Senior Big Data Engineer
Captify®
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
7 months
Skills: Apache Spark Streaming · Machine Learning · Scala · HBase · Data Engineering · JavaScript · Python (Programming Language) · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Apache Spark · Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) · Databases
Senior Software Engineer
Sky
Oct 2021 - May 2022
8 months
London, UK
Skills: Scala · Apache Kafka · Kubernetes · Google Cloud Platform (GCP) · Elasticsearch · ZIO · Data Streaming · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Elastic Stack (ELK) · Kibana · Unix · Databases
Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
2 years 2 months
Manchester, UK
Skills: Scala · Datadog · AWS Lambda · PySpark · ORC · Data Engineering · Databricks · Data Streaming · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Amazon Kinesis · GraphQL · Apache Spark · Amazon Athena · Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) · Unix · Databases
Senior Software Engineer
HM Revenue & Customs
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
1 year 2 months
On-site
Skills: Scala · MongoDB · Databases · Play Framework
Software Engineer
Green Man Gaming
Jan 2017 - May 2018
1 year 5 months
London · On-site
Skills: Scala · Apache Kafka · Puppet (Software) · C# · Redis · Cassandra · JavaScript · Python (Programming Language) · Amazon Athena · Amazon SQS · PostgreSQL · CouchDB · Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) · Go (Programming Language)
Software Engineer
Cromwell Tools Ltd
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
8 months
Leicester, UK
Skills: SQL · PHP
Co-Owner
Datanet d.o.o.Freelance
Sep 2009 - Jan 2015
5 years 5 months
6000 Koper, Slovenia
Skills: Machine Learning · Java · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Unix
Education
UP FAMNIT - Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
2013 - Present
13 years 2 months