Hello Marta, Thankyou for your response. I will definitely apply.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:15 AM Marta Paes Moreira <ma...@ververica.com> wrote: > Hi, Abdul. > > Thank you for reaching out and for your interest in Google Season of Docs > (GSoD)! > > We really appreciate it that you took the time to walk us through your > experience, as well as your previous contributions to open source. Even > though we are accepting applications from people with any kind of > background, being familiar with Flink and similar projects is definitely > an advantage — so, we highly encourage you to apply! You can learn more > about the application process of GSoD in [1,2]. > > Let us know if you have any questions, we're happy to help! > > Thanks, > > Marta > > [1] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline > [2] > https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/tech-writer-application-hints > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:46 PM abdul basit <abp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> -- Thanks Regards, Abdul Basit
