Aqib Mehmood
About Aqib Mehmood
Aqib Mehmood is a Senior Data Engineer at Delivery Hero in Berlin, Germany, with a background in Mechanical Engineering from NUST and extensive experience in data engineering roles.
Current Role at Delivery Hero
Aqib Mehmood is currently serving as a Senior Data Engineer at Delivery Hero in Berlin, Germany. In this role, he has been instrumental in fixing Flink memory issues by 80% through the configuration of garbage collector and caching parameters. Additionally, he developed a backfill pipeline that effectively loads data for over 400 million customers globally using advanced technologies such as BigQuery, Airflow, Pyspark, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, and DynamoDB.
Previous Experience at Retailo Technologies
Aqib Mehmood worked at Retailo Technologies as a Data Engineer from 2022 to 2023. During his 11-month tenure, he enabled Flink load testing at 700+ records per second and implemented end-to-end latency monitoring using Prometheus exporter and Datadog. His contributions significantly enhanced the company's data engineering capabilities.
Team Lead Role at Fatima Group
From 2021 to 2022, Aqib Mehmood held the position of Team Lead at Fatima Group in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. As a team lead, he assumed interim leadership for a team of more than five engineers, overseeing sprint and quarterly planning. His leadership facilitated the development of a snapshot pipeline to load data from over 100 DynamoDB tables to BigQuery using S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Airflow.
Graduate Engineer at Engro Corp
Aqib Mehmood began his professional journey as a Graduate Engineer at Engro Corp in the Ghotki District, where he worked from 2019 to 2020. This role marked the launch of his engineering career, providing foundational experience in a structured corporate environment.
Education at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Aqib Mehmood studied Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Pakistan. He achieved his Bachelor's degree after completing a four-year program from 2015 to 2019. His academic background laid the groundwork for his subsequent career in data engineering and technology.