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Ali Al-Azadi

@alial-azadi

Lead Data Platform Engineer at WaferWire Cloud Technologies, building governed lakehouse and AI-ready data platforms for enterprise workloads.

United States

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At WaferWire Cloud Technologies, I lead a team of 12 engineers delivering cloud data platforms across enterprise analytics, healthcare, fintech, and AI-enabled applications. I work across AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric to develop governed lakehouse architectures and reusable data products.

I’ve also developed data platforms at Trupanion, Qumolo, and Rang Technologies Inc, including healthcare pipelines using HL7 and FHIR data structures and streaming and CDC systems for analytics. My selected projects include an enterprise AI data foundation and RAG platform, a clinical data modernization platform, and a fintech and payments data platform.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead Data Platform Engineer

Current

WaferWire Cloud Technologies

Mar 2023 - Present (3 years 7 months)

Lead a team of 12 data and platform engineers responsible for architecture, engineering, delivery, and operational support of cloud data platforms spanning enterprise analytics, healthcare data, fintech data, and AI enabled applications.

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Trupanion

Nov 2020 - Feb 2023 (2 years 3 months)

Engineered cloud data platforms supporting healthcare analytics, operational reporting, customer analytics, and enterprise data products.

Python SQL PySpark Apache Spark Databricks Snowflake Delta Lake Kafka Spark Structured Streaming DBT Airflow Databricks Workflows HL7 FHIR Data Quality Data Governance

Data Engineer

Qumolo

Apr 2018 - Oct 2020 (2 years 6 months)

Built enterprise data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Python, SQL, Spark, PySpark, Hadoop ecosystem technologies, and cloud data services.