👋 Hi, I’m Cristian Vasu

🎓 Master of Science in Computer Science (Dec 2025) @ Bowling Green State University
💡 Focused on Data Engineering & Data Science — building scalable pipelines, benchmarking databases, and applying distributed ML.
🚀 Actively seeking Data Engineering / Data Science roles.

🔥 Spotlight Projects

1. 🏥 HealthTrend Innovations – Big Data Architecture (Capstone)
   Designed a Hadoop-based healthcare data ecosystem (50TB). Integrated HDFS, Spark, Hive, NiFi, Kafka, Docker, with HIPAA-compliant security. Delivered Docker PoC + proposal.

2. ⚡ Spark for Batch + Streaming: Market Analysis & Kafka Pipeline
   Combined batch analytics (S&P 500 with PySpark) and real-time pipelines (Spark + Kafka).

3. 🤖 Scalable Machine Learning with SparkML (Census Income Classification)
   End-to-end ML pipeline on the Adult Census dataset with preprocessing, cross-validation, Logistic Regression + Random Forest.

4. 📊 Database Performance Benchmarking with YCSB (Cassandra vs PostgreSQL)
   Benchmarked NoSQL vs SQL systems under different workloads using YCSB, analyzing throughput and latency trade-offs.

5. 🌦️ NOAA Weather Data Analysis with MapReduce
   MapReduce analysis of 1920–1940 NOAA station data for operability and descriptive statistics.

📫 Connect

• 💼 LinkedIn
• 📧 cristian@cristianvasu.com