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Alee Shaheed User

@aleeshaheeduser

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Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud-native pipelines, streaming, and data platform optimization.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior data engineering role building scalable, secure cloud data platforms, emphasizing streaming, observability, cross-functional leadership, and cost optimization.

I am a Senior Data Engineer with 12+ years designing and operating scalable, cloud-native data platforms across AWS and Azure, focused on enabling analytics and ML workloads that drive measurable business outcomes.

I build reliable batch and streaming pipelines using Airflow, Kafka, and Spark, optimize modern data warehouses such as Snowflake and Redshift, and enforce data governance, security, and compliance for regulated customers.

I have a strong track record of leading cross-functional teams, reducing infrastructure costs through performance tuning and automation, and improving observability and reliability with data quality frameworks and monitoring.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

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CData Software

Jan 2021 - Present (5 years 1 month)

Designed and maintained high-throughput ETL/ELT pipelines into Snowflake and Redshift and built Kafka streaming ingestion to reduce data latency and improve pipeline reliability.

Apache Airflow Kafka Spark Snowflake Redshift AWS S3 EMR Data Governance ETL

Cloud Data Engineer

Responsive

Jul 2016 - Dec 2020 (4 years 5 months)

Built a cloud-native data platform on AWS for product telemetry with real-time event processing using Kafka and Spark Streaming and automated data lifecycle and compliance processes.

Kafka AWS Docker Kubernetes CI CD Data Retention

Analytics Data Engineer

GoodData

Jun 2013 - Jun 2016 (3 years)

Designed enterprise semantic layers and built batch pipelines with dbt and Airflow to deliver analytics-ready data marts with SCD Type 2 and data quality monitoring.