Abdullah Alotaishan
@abdullahalotaishan
Data engineer focused on scalable pipelines, ML, and cloud infrastructure.
What I'm looking for
I am a data engineer and software practitioner specialising in building scalable data pipelines, cloud-native infrastructure, and ML-enabled analytics solutions. I combine academic research in data engineering with hands-on production deployments to deliver reliable, reproducible systems.
My recent work includes integrating LLMs into humanitarian workflows at the International Federation of the Red Cross to generate automated insights and summaries, and leading the design and deployment of a multi-service real-estate SaaS with geospatial search and multi-tenant capabilities.
I have built distributed pipelines for large scientific datasets (including AlphaFold processing), implemented observability with Prometheus and Grafana, and benchmarked 24-hour stable runs to demonstrate reliability. I am experienced across Python, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, ClickHouse, PostGIS, and multiple AWS services.
I am driven by delivering production-grade systems that are reproducible, monitored, and cost-efficient, and I apply agile requirements engineering and evaluation frameworks to ensure solutions meet user needs and operational constraints.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founder & Engineer
Maqar
Jan 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)
Designed and deployed a real-estate SaaS with seven production microservices, implementing geospatial search, multi-tenant agency management, payment workflows, and analytics dashboards to track user behaviour and conversions.
Data Engineer
International Federation of the Red Cross
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 (3 months)
Integrated Azure OpenAI into IFRC GO to embed LLMs for summarising complex humanitarian reports and delivered automated insights for Rapid Response Capacity, disaster funding, and situational overviews.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University College London
Master of Science, Software, AI & Data Engineering
2024 -
Activities and societies: Built distributed pipeline for AlphaFold and energy-market data; applied transfer entropy to analyse nonlinear dependencies; skills in Python, SQL, Spark, AWS, statistical modelling, and machine learning.
MSc in Software, AI & Data Engineering with research focus on scalable data pipelines and causal inference for large datasets.
King's College London
Bachelor of Science (Hons), Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence
2021 - 2024
Activities and societies: Final-year project: interactive crime-data platform with geospatial analytics; coursework in data analysis, machine learning, and cryptography.
BSc (Hons) in Computer Science with AI focusing on data analysis, machine learning, and applied cryptography.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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