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Ahamd Awan

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Lead Data Engineer at Dataquest who migrated 600+ TB into a lakehouse and saved $140,000 annually.

United States
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At Dataquest, I architected a Medallion Lakehouse on Databricks, migrating more than 600 TB of fragmented legacy storage into Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg. I also built automated compute spin-down and storage-tiering strategies that saved $140,000 annually.

I designed Airflow and Azure Data Factory pipelines for financial and transactional workloads, orchestrating 150+ daily DAGs with a 99.95% operational SLA. Query and Spark optimizations reduced cloud compute spend by 28%.

At Orderly Health, I built Kafka-based streaming pipelines processing over 20,000 clickstream messages per second with exactly-once semantics. I also developed Snowflake and Redshift transformation layers and reduced warehouse credit utilization by 35%.

Earlier, at Lendbuzz, I built data ingestion pipelines and migrated cron-managed Bash scripts and legacy SSIS packages to Apache Airflow, reducing pipeline failure points and operational overhead by 40%. My projects also include multi-cloud lakehouse integration and AI-ready data pipelines for RAG applications.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Lead Data Engineer & Data Architect

Dataquest

May 2023 - Present (3 years 5 months)

Architected and deployed an end-to-end Medallion Lakehouse Architecture using Databricks, Delta Engine, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, and PySpark, migrating 600+ TB of fragmented legacy storage into structured Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg open table formats. Designed and maintained complex enterprise pipelines within Apache Airflow and Azure Data Factory, orchestrating 150+ daily dynamic DAGs

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Senior Data Engineer

Orderly Health

Sep 2019 - Apr 2023 (3 years 7 months)

Constructed real-time event-driven streaming data pipelines using Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Kafka Connect, and Azure Event Hubs, processing over 20,000 clickstream messages per second with exactly-once semantics. Developed scalable data transformation layers within Snowflake and Amazon Redshift using DBT, Jinja templating, incremental materializations, and custom macros to clean operational s

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Data Engineer

Lendbuzz

May 2016 - Aug 2019 (3 years 3 months)

Built and scaled operational data ingestion pipelines using Python, SQL, and AWS Lambda serverless functions to absorb structured, semi-structured, and raw API outputs from relational database engines. Migrated on-premise cron-managed Bash shell scripts and legacy SSIS packages to a centralised Apache Airflow environment, reducing operational management overhead and pipeline failure points by 40%.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

BS

Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2012 - 2016

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from 2012 to 2016.

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