Farooq Alee
@aleehafeez1337
Senior Data Engineer and Solutions Architect focused on scalable, reliable data platforms.
What I'm looking for
Senior Data Engineer with 11+ years of experience building scalable data platforms and high-throughput pipelines across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I’m passionate about solving complex data challenges and designing systems that turn raw data into meaningful, business-driven insights. Over the years, I’ve led cloud migrations, modernized legacy architectures, and consistently delivered reliable, production-grade solutions that support analytics and machine learning at scale.
Expertise in batch and real-time data processing using Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and dbt, along with modern data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery and Redshift. Strong background in data modeling, distributed systems and ETL/ELT design, hands-on proficiency in Python, SQL, and Terraform. Experienced in building secure, scalable data platforms with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and implementing data governance, quality, and performance.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Data Engineer
CorroHealth
Sep 2023 - Present (2 years 6 months)
Owned database architecture across Azure and Microsoft Fabric, including schema design, stored procedures, and enterprise data models for analytics and Power BI reporting. Built and optimized Azure Data Factory ETL/ELT pipelines, delivered gold-layer curated datasets, and implemented governance and data documentation aligned with HIPAA and security requirements.
Led end-to-end development of scalable data pipelines and reusable data models supporting analytics, reporting, and machine learning use cases. Architected curated datasets and semantic layers, integrated diverse data sources, enforced data quality and documentation/lineage standards, and improved production pipeline performance and reliability.
Architected and managed cloud-based data infrastructure for high-volume event and product usage data. Built distributed ingestion frameworks and semantic layers with fault-tolerant workflows and data observability, enabling self-service analytics and supporting AI/ML readiness with structured datasets for experimentation.
Data Engineer
Etleap
Apr 2015 - Jun 2017 (2 years 2 months)
Supported an early-stage startup team by designing and implementing ETL pipelines that centralized data for analysis. Wrote and maintained Python/SQL transformations, set up orchestration with Apache Airflow and AWS Glue, and helped diagnose pipeline failures using logs and output validation in S3 and Redshift-based environments.
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Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
etleap
Splunk
Azure Synapse
Apache Spark
AWS Glue
Apache Flink
Superset
Data Studio
Sigma Computing
Amazon S3
GitHub
GitLab
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
NumPy
Pandas
PySpark
Data Miner
AWS Data Wrangler
Dask
AWS Data Pipeline
Google BigQuery Data Transf...
Debezium
dbt
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
Hadoop
Gmail
Node.js
Databricks
Redis
Terraform
Pulumi
React
JavaScript
Python
HTML5
Java
CSS 3
JSON
Logstash
Fluentd
Loki
MLflow
Kubeflow
Kafka
Apache Pulsar
FastAPI
Grafana
Kibana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
New Relic
Datadog
Amazon Kinesis
Elasticsearch
Kafka Streams
TypeScript
Docker
Airflow
Apache Beam
s3-lambda
erwin Data Modeler
TimescaleDB
Luigi
Amazon EMR
SQL
Airtable
Mode Analytics
Clickhouse
Dagster
Ray
DataHub
DVC (Data Version Control)
Delta Lake
Great Expectations
ArgoCD
Amundsen
dlt (data load tool)
Collibra
Bash
TIBCO Data Virtualization
Deequ
Microsoft Fabric
Typer
Brex
Factory
Beam
Jan
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